4) Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
"This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere. . . ." — President John F. Kennedy, October 22, 1962
Which action did President Kennedy take following this statement?
A) urging Allied forces to remove Soviet weapons from Cuba
B) ordering a naval quarantine of Cuba
C) breaking off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
D) asking the United Nations to stop grain shipments to the Soviet Union