Was the Cuban missile crisis during the cold war?

Answer 1

You need to work this answer abit but the jist of it is:

YES the Cuban Missile Crisis was a turning point in the cold war,because:

1. Khrushchev lost prestige - the Russian army generals didn't forgive for having chosen peace (what ither choice did he have?). China broke from Russia, saw her as unable tostand up to the forces of the West.

2. Kennedy gained prestige, his cool yet hawkish response was greatly praised. He was seen as the man who faced down the Russians.

3. Both sides had had a fright. They were more careful in future. The two leaders set up a telephone 'hotline' to talk directly in a future crisis situation.

4. In 1963, they agreed a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty +Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

5. Cuba remained a Communist Dictatorship, but America left it alone.

NO, it wasn't a turning point because:

1. Ideologies on both sides remained the same, both superpowers still had the same suspicions towards each other. Changed actions not convictions!

2. Tensions arose through the proxy-wars (ie: Vietnam, Afghanistan...)

3. Peace had been accepted mainly because there was NO alternative apart from nuclear annihilation.

4. Crisis was a "pretext", only forced them to physically experience what they had been imagining for several years already, less a consequence of the crisis then of what led up to it.

Answer 2

That's what the cold war was all about..."one upmanship against the other." "Upping the ante" upon the other. Win one, lose one. A possible draw in the Korean War, a loss of face in the Cuban Missile Crisis, and a communist victory in the Vietnam War.

In the end it was money that doomed the Soviets.

Answer 3

Yes it did implement the war, everyone was effected the Warsaw pact that was the soviets reaction the NATO prepared for war, likewise so did NATO, the only real benefit from the Missile Crisis was that people were flocking into super markets to buy supplies as a Nuclear war seemed inevitable. When in secret the USA agreed to remove their missiles from Turkey the Soviets in turn agreed to openly remove there's from Cuba, this made Fidel Castro distraught as he no longer had a bargaining tool to repel the US forces that had made numerous attempts on his life. It seemed that before this was secretly agreed that because of the crisis a nuclear war would break out, as the day after the crisis ended the Americans had intended to invade and annihilate the Cuban Soviet forces.

Answer 4

Yes to some extent it did. It was more tense between the United States and Russia. There wasn't much trust to begin with, but I think there was less after. It seemed like there was more "them and us" said or written about in the news.

Answer 5

It was not a cause of the Cold War. The Cold War was well underway in the 1950's. The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the times where it almost went hot.

Answer 6

It was simply part of the cold war.

Answer 7

yes