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