American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans without having to go all the way around South America
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He was a lot of Things, but Not a great President
1. The Cuban Missile Crisis was his fault
2. The Bay of Pigs invasion was his faul
3. He escalated in Vietnam
4. Oh, and he backed an ill-advised coup in Iraq too
5. He went way too slowly on civil rights
They wanted their scholars to convince others to follow a path of virtue and wisdom.
To be able to claim it was still one country
In July of 1962, the United States found out the the Soviet Union had begun to ship missiles to Cuba. By October 14, there was a report that a ballistic missile on a launching site was seen. President Kennedy announced that on October 22, the United States would create a blockade around Cuba in order to prevent more missiles from entering the island. Other countries inside the blockade zone were Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Bahama Islands and Puerto Rico.