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President Khrushchev's Portrayal Of The Cuban Missile Crisis

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The film thirteen days portrayed the Cuban missile crisis. During the Cuban missile crisis; President Kennedy did not want to invade Cuba, because doing so possibly could have started a world however, he could not let the missile sites ever be completed. President Kennedy along with his advisers decided on a naval blockade to avoid Russian ships distributing the missiles to the Cuban sites. Khrushchev thought that Russia would view the blockade as an act of war. US bombers were put in the air with nuclear bombs and preparations were made to invade Cuba; and the Russian forces were put on high alert. But then confidentially, the United states suggested to trade missile bases with US bases in Turkey for Russian bases in Cuba. The ships heading
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