What was the impact of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 1

Cold war; upping the ante.

Answer 2

1. Khrushchev lost prestige - he had failed. Particularly, China broke from Russia.
2. Kennedy gained prestige. He was seen as the men 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 crisis.
4. In 1963, they agreed a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The treaty with Cuba was the beginning of the end of the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States.
5. Cuba remained a Communist Dictatorship, but America left it alone.

Answer 3

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 4

The world had been at 'the brink of war' and both super powers (US and the Soviet Union) knew they had to improve relations and so Détente started. Détente is a French word meaning the easing of tension. During this period of time. the US and the Soviet Union attempted to improve relations to stop a anything like the Cuban Missiles Crisis happening again. They achieved this by setting up a telephone line between the White House in Washington DC and the Kremlin in Moscow. Also they began many negotiations and signed treaties such as the Non-Proliferation Treaty which banned countries from sharing nuclear know-how, The Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT) which cut the number of missiles the two super powers possessed and produced, and the Helsinki Agreement which forced the Soviet Union to provide some human rights for it people and 'satellite countries'. Détente came to an abrupt end in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

Answer 5

American 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 6

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 7

The world knew the US would not back down; the world saw that the Soviets did.

Answer 8

The world was shocked to learn (and witness on nation wide TV) that the US WOULD USE NUCLEAR Weapons on the Soviet Union if pushed that far.