Question

With the threat of World War III on the horizon, the Cuban Missile Crisis was finally resolved by: a promise that the U.S. would never invade Cuba Fidel Castro stepping down as Cuba's leader the Soviet Union getting rid of its Cuban missiles Cuba promising to adhere to a new set of free elections American missiles being pulled out of Turkey NATO and the Warsaw Pact being dissolved

Answer 1

Answer:  a promise that the U.S. would never invade Cuba.

Explanation: The Soviet leader decided to install missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba, assuming that Kennedy would not act if the Americans discovered what was going on. Khrushchev wanted to protect Cuba from another American-backed invasion, which Castro believed to be imminent and to redress the strategic imbalance caused by the presence of U.S. missiles in Turkey aimed at the Soviet Union. The president and his advisers decided that the forty Soviet missiles in Cuba represented a real threat to American security. The Soviets offered to withdraw the missiles in return for a public pledge by the United States not to invade Cuba. Secretary of State Dean Rusk replied that the administration was interested in such a solution but stressed to a newscaster, “Remember, when you report this, [to say] that eyeball to eyeball, they [the Soviets] blinked first.” On Sunday, October 28, Khrushchev agreed to remove the Soviet missiles from Cuba.

Answer 2

The Cuban missile crisis ended after the US agreed to not invade Cuba and to allow Cuba to maintain its own sovereignty.