What threatening action did the Soviet Union take in Cuba?

Answer 1

The Soviet strategy for sending missiles to Cuba was to intimidate the US and thereby gain an advantage in the ongoing struggle for global domination. Having a medium range missile base so close to the US would mean that the missiles have a shorter distance to travel and are therefore harder to shoot down in transit, as compared to attacking the US from the territory of the USSR itself.

Answer 2

President Kennedy admitted to lack of missile gap unlike Eisenhower. He said that the US was way ahead of the Soviets in the developing missiles. This made Khrushchev (The Soviet leader) look bad. And this angers Cuba a lot especially, after our failed attempt with the Bay of Pigs. Castro starts to buddy up with the Soviets a lot more. Khrushchev doesn't want to see the US take Cuba down. So he offers to arm Castro with weapons. The US had the Soviet Union surrounded with missile sites and the Soviets wanted at least one site near the US. If they could get Cuba they would have their "one place". A U2 planes discovered installation sites being built in Cuba by the soviets. Kennedy called together the National Security Council, DOD, etc. to discuss what to do with this. We came up with three options. 1)Invade Cuba-Bay of pigs was a failure. 2) Air Strike- were afraid if we did do that ,t hey would shoot our planes3) Leave it alone. No one was really satisfied with those three option so we decided to Quarantine AKA Blockade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis scared everyone to death; we were on the verge of nuclear war. In 1963 the US and the Soviet Union Signed a nuclear Test Ban Treaty which banned the testing of atomic weapons. A hotline was also set up between Moscow and Washington D.C.

Answer 3

A number of factors are believed to of lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. Cuba used to be run by Batista, who was an American sympathiser and he allowed the US to have a navy base there. There were also a lot of US run and owned shops on Cuba. Then Fidel Castro lead a rebellion against Batista and won. Castro broke relations with the US and gave all the US run businesses to Cubans. The US encouraged Cuban exiles to rebel against Castro but after being beaten at the bay of Pigs they failed. Krushchev, the communist leader of the USSR (now Russia) armed Castro with nuclear weapons which were discovered by an American plane. President Kennedytried appeasing Krushchev, but after this failed he ordered a blockade of Cuba.

There was no clear cause. but many little events

Answer 4

The Russians put missiles in Cuba which is only 90 miles from the coastline of the US. JFK told them to remove them and it resulted in a blockade of the Cuba and a standoff with Russia. We were within hours of a war before it was settled.

Answer 5

US Forces MOVED towards Cuba with the intent of destroying the Soviet Forces if they did not remove their missiles. The Soviets removed them.

Answer 6

The cold war Led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Answer 7

They built nuclear missile bases and the bases were pointing toward Amerca

Answer 8

the Cubans hate America