JFK in Office

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Across
  1. 3. Kennedy’s defense secretary and part of EXCOMM.
  2. 8. Cuba is where the Russians put their weapons.
  3. 10. Our first strategy was to use diplomatic pressure to force Russia to remove them but we eventually ruled that out.
  4. 12. the group organized to stop the cuban missile crisis.
  5. 15. The military prevented unauthorized vessels to enter the blockade.
  6. 16. A city the Russian Missiles could hit if shot off lolz.
  7. 17. Russian ships ignored the naval blockade.
  8. 19. The plane that captured the pictures.
  9. 21. Both Russia and the US were superpowers and if they went head to head it could’ve been very bad.
  10. 22. Everyone thought war was inevitable.
  11. 23. A city they could hit if fired.
  12. 24. Americans found russian nuclear weapons on an island in cuba.
  13. 25. He was the president at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Down
  1. 1. They type of missiles we found, they were capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
  2. 2. The vice-president and part of EXCOMM.
  3. 4. We offered an exchange. Remove their missiles from Cuba and we’ll remove ours from turkey.
  4. 5. The Russian President at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  5. 6. how we discovered the missiles.
  6. 7. Kennedy’s generals pushed him to retaliate after one of his U-2 planes were shot down but he resisted and prevented us from war.
  7. 9. Kennedy addressed the nation about the threat on TV.
  8. 11. the area you couldn’t cross due to the blockade.
  9. 13. What the US was trying to get off Cuba in the first place.
  10. 14. A mob boss controlling much of Cuba and causing a lot of heartache for the US.
  11. 18. The month this all went down.
  12. 20. What the navy did in order to keep tabs on every boat going in and out of cuban waters.