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What did the Cuban Missile Crisis reveal about the policy of the US?
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∙ 11y ago
The Cuban missile crisis broke out 50 years ago this month, and its lessons on weakness, strength, and compromise have been recited ever since by politicians, pundits, and historians. The problem—which has plagued U.S. foreign policy time and again—is that these lessons are myths, based on sheer lies about how the crisis began and how it ended.
One of these myths has been thoroughly exploded (though many eminences seem not to know it). This is the notion that President John F. Kennedy got Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to back down and remove his nuclear missiles from Cuba entirely through the threat of force. In fact, as revealed by JFK’s secret tape recordings of his meetings with senior advisers (evidence that’s been available at the Kennedy Library for 25 years now), the two leaders brokered a deal: Khrushchev would take his missiles out of Cuba; Kennedy would take his very similar missiles out of Turkey.
But the other myth, no less pernicious in its impact (and no less false), still endures. This is the legend that Kennedy cowered before Khrushchev at a summit in Vienna in the spring of 1961 and that, as a result, the crafty Communist aggressively deployed missiles in Cuba thinking the young president was too weak to respond.
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∙ 15y agoThat it could easily become a shooting war.
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What century did the Cuban missile crisis?
The Cuban missile crisis started on October 16, 1962
What do the Cubans call the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The missile crisis
What where lasting effects of Cuban missile crisis?
The United States broadened its contianment policy
What was the cause of the cuban missile crisis?
Soviets were establishing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
The President who resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis was?
President Kennedy is credited with resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.President John F. Kennedy
What effect did the Cuban missile crisis have on the children?
the us broadened its containment policy
What century did the Cuban missile crisis?
The Cuban missile crisis started on October 16, 1962
What do the Cubans call the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The missile crisis
What where lasting effects of Cuban missile crisis?
The United States broadened its contianment policy
What was the cause of the cuban missile crisis?
Soviets were establishing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
Bay of Pigs or Cuban missile crisis which was worse?
Cuban missile crisis, because it almost killed us.
The President who resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis was?
President Kennedy is credited with resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.President John F. Kennedy
Who Cuban missile crisis?
the U.S.
Was there a Missile Crisis in Newfoundland in 1962?
No. The "documentary" was parodying the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
Who faced the Cuban missile crisis?
The country that faced the missile crisis was the United States.
Did Roger Hilsman fight in the Cuban missile crisis?
No, no one "fought" in the Cuban missile crisis. He was an Assistant Secretary of State at the time.
What was the central issue of the Cuban missile crisis?
The Cuban Missle Crisis was done in 1984
