5 Facts about the Cuban Missile Crisis and The Cuban Revolution

1. The U-2 aerial photographs were analyzed inside a secret office above a used car dealership.

2. The Soviets relied on checkered shirts and tight quarters to sneak thousands of troops into Cuba.

3. To keep news of the crisis from leaking, a concocted cold was blamed for President Kennedy’s cancellation of public events

4. President Kennedy’s aides drafted a speech announcing a military invasion of Cuba.

5. A Soviet spy was a valuable mole.

6. There were American combat fatalities

7. Both sides compromised.

8. Secret back-door diplomacy, rather than brinkmanship, defused the crisis.

9. The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted more than just 13 days.

10. Although the Kennedy administration thought all the Soviet nukes were gone, they weren’t.

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