British Imperialism In America

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Kennedy told the public about the situation and his decision to quarantine Cuba on October 22. He also said that any nuclear missile launched from Cuba would be regarded as an attack on the United States by the Soviet Union and demanded that the Soviets remove all of their offensive weapons from Cuba.
Then on the 26th, Khrushchev wrote a letter to the U.S. proposing that he would remove all of the Soviet missiles if the U.S. guaranteed not to invade Cuba. Then the next day, which was the worst day of the crisis, a U-2 airplane was shot down over Cuba. The U.S. received another letter from Khrushchev demanding that the U.S. take it's missiles out of Turkey in exchange for Soviet missiles in Cuba. That letter was pretty much ignored. Then, finally on the 28, Khrushchev announced that he would return the missiles to the Soviet Union, with the trust that the U.S. would not invade Cuba.
I think that this is the most influential event because they're fingers were on the little ...

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