kennedy ordered all soviet ships away from cuba on october 28 1962.
kennedy ordered all soviet ships away from cuba on october 28 1962.
who ordered all soviet ships away from cuba on october 28 1962?
kennedy
in less than one year in office, thant faced a critical challenge to defuse the cuban missile crisis, the moment when the world came closest to a nuclear war. on 20 october 1962, two days before public announcements were made, u.s president john f. kennedy showed thant u-2 aerial reconnaissance photographs of soviet missile installations in cuba. the president then ordered a naval "quarantine" to remove all offensive weapons from soviet ships bound for cuba. meanwhile, soviet ships were approaching the quarantine zone. to avoid a naval confrontation, thant proposed that the u.s should make non-invasion guarantees in exchange for missile withdrawal from the soviet union. soviet premier khrushchev welcomed the proposal, which formed the basis of further negotiations. khrushchev further agreed to suspend missile shipments while the negotiations were ongoing. but on 27 october 1962, a u-2 plane was shot down over cuba, deepening the crisis. kennedy was under intense pressure to invade from the joint chiefs of staff and the executive committee (excomm). kennedy hoped thant would play the role of mediator and subsequently replied to excomm and the joint chiefs, "on the other hand we have u thant, and we don’t want to sink a ship...right in the middle of when u thant is supposedly arranging for the russians to stay out."
u thant
on the morning of 9 july most of the naval activity came to an end as soviet boats withdrew, though the larger soviet ships continued shelling the area. finnish forces, reinforced by the german sat "ost", armed with a single 152mm gun—heavier than any guns aboard the soviet ships—attempted to drive them away, and the soviet ships withdrew under cover of smokescreens. this proved to be the final surface action of the battle. during the morning the last soviet pockets of resistance had been cleared from the island. there were several more soviet aerial attacks, but no further landing attempts.
battle of someri