1) ariel spying over Cuba produced pictures that showed missile silos being built in Cuba. The design of the silos made it clear they were designed for missiles, and it made no sense for Cuba to put in anything less than nuclear missiles there. Missiles they could not build themselves, so had to come from the Soviet Union.
2) Only minutes. A launch from the Soviet Union to the US only takes about 20 minutes. Depending on the range of the missiles put into the silos, warning time would have been anywhere from 3-10 minutes. Not enough time to verify that it was a launch, and not a detection system malfunction, forcing America to launch immediately, or risk losing its capacity to strike back.
3) A direct attack or invasion of Cuba would have forced the Soviet Union to respond in kind. The USSR simply could not abandon Cuba, without losing all credibility among its allies and vassal states. So they would likely have struck back at the US, probably in Europe. This would have dangerously escalated the tensions, and increased the probability of nuclear war. Other officials believed that a quick,determined strike would not only eliminate the immediate threat of missiles in Cuba, but possibly overthrow the regime and force the USSR to accept the situation. The idea of a naval blockade was a compromise position. A threat of force, but one that allowed the USSR to back off. After all, so long as the missiles were not put into the silos, they were no threat.
The greatest thing that the nation had to do was get through the Great Depression. The Depression was the thing that was hurting everyone.
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Indian Removal Act was passed which resulted in the forced displacement of the Native Americans to reservation lands
Explanation:
Due to the belief of Manifest destiny, Americans decided to settle in the west of the Appalachians which was the primary area of the native american tribes like Cherokee,Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek and Seminole peoples. the western tribal land became valuable because it was fertile and congenial for settling. The states which saw them included in such lands pressured the federal Government to enact the Indian removal act. "trail of Tears" is the route in which the native Americans undertook their journey by foot for displacement.
During this move, many dies out of exhaustion, starvation and cold. US gained millions of square miles of territory for settling. Much of the fertile land were used for cotton production and many slaves were employed in the plantations. Thus southern economy ran basically on agriculture and slavery.
