Problem: How did the Cuban Missile Crisis deescalate?
Group of answer choices
- The US blockaded the Gulf of Mexico and Soviet ports until the Soviet Union backed down.
- Concerned about initiating a nuclear exchange, the Soviet Union backed down on their own.
- The US deployed a bomber squadron to Moscow, and the Soviets removed Cuban missiles before the bombers could reach Moscow.
- President Kennedy agreed to remove US missiles in Turkey aimed at Moscow, if Premier Khrushchev took down missiles in Cuba.