Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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The Crisis is also known as the 13 Days
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Castro became leader of Cuba after the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Castro was initially willing to try to work with the US
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The plan to overthrow Castro had been convceived by the CIA under Kennedy
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Even the CIA described the Bay of Pigs as a ‘perfect failure’
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The Bay of Pigs was in April 1961
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Khrushchev claimed he put Missiles in Cuba to get a first strike capability.
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Kennedy was informed on 14 October
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Operation Meercat was a CIA plot to assassinate Castro
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The US had operational Missiles in Turkey & Italy
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Kennedy’s advisory body was known as ‘think tank’
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Colonel Curtis Lee May was a well known ‘hawk’
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The ‘hawks’ favored a diplomatic solution to the crisis
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Kennedy appeared on National TV on the 22nd and informed the US the missiles only had a defensive purpose, but they had to be removed.
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Kennedy opted for a quarantine of Cuba