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To test the resolve of the young President Kennedy and also to find out how good the US spy satellites were.

The reason he approved is because Castro believed that another U.S. attack was immenent so he wanted the missiles as a defensive manuever

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How is Castro connected to the cold war?

Fidel Castro and the cold warFidel Castro held weapons in Cuba for Russia.


Who Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from cuba after?

yes for the Cuban missile crises


How did Cuba almost cause a nuclear was between the soviet union and the US?

The Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1962, The Soviet Union, in collaboration with Fidel Castro, began building nuclear missiles on the Island of Cuba. Because the Soviets technology at the time limited their nuclear missiles range, they felt that having missiles in Cuba was the only way of defending against an attack by the United States, whose nuclear arsenal could reach the Soviet Union at any time. Castro, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, thought that another attack by the U.S was inevitable and agreed to the Soviet installations. President Kennedy imposed a quarantine on the island by surrounding it with naval vessels and ordered the missiles to be dismantled. Several tense days went by, and the world was on the brink of nuclear war. the worst day being October 27th when a U2 reconnaissance plane was shot down. On October 28th, The U.S and the Soviet Union came to an agreement. The missiles and bombers would be removed from Cuba, and the U.S agreed not to invade Cuba, thus ending the crisis.


What happened on the last day of Cuban missiles crisis?

Nikita Khushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba and ordered the Russian ships home. The USA promised not to put missiles in Turkey near the Soviet border and promised not to attack Cuba.


How did the Cuban missiles crisis end?

It was in this Quarantine zone that the Essex Carrier Group was patrolling to prevent ships carrying Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba and also to prevent Soviet Submarines from passing by either. we might have seen the beginnings of World War 3 there, as the Soviet Submarines which patrolled that area were loaded with nuclear-tipped torpedoes and the missiles which were located on Cuba were also short to medium range nuclear missiles. But even so, after a ridiculous amount of correspondence between the two superpowers, Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove his missiles from Cuba as long as JF Kennedy agreed to not invade Cuba. Agreeing to these terms Kennedy swore by everything holy not to invade, and Khrushchev did remove his missiles. The crisis was over.

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How is Castro connected to the cold war?

Fidel Castro and the cold warFidel Castro held weapons in Cuba for Russia.


Who Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from cuba after?

yes for the Cuban missile crises


How did Cuba almost cause a nuclear was between the soviet union and the US?

The Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1962, The Soviet Union, in collaboration with Fidel Castro, began building nuclear missiles on the Island of Cuba. Because the Soviets technology at the time limited their nuclear missiles range, they felt that having missiles in Cuba was the only way of defending against an attack by the United States, whose nuclear arsenal could reach the Soviet Union at any time. Castro, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, thought that another attack by the U.S was inevitable and agreed to the Soviet installations. President Kennedy imposed a quarantine on the island by surrounding it with naval vessels and ordered the missiles to be dismantled. Several tense days went by, and the world was on the brink of nuclear war. the worst day being October 27th when a U2 reconnaissance plane was shot down. On October 28th, The U.S and the Soviet Union came to an agreement. The missiles and bombers would be removed from Cuba, and the U.S agreed not to invade Cuba, thus ending the crisis.


What happened on the last day of Cuban missiles crisis?

Nikita Khushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba and ordered the Russian ships home. The USA promised not to put missiles in Turkey near the Soviet border and promised not to attack Cuba.


How did the Cuban missiles crisis end?

It was in this Quarantine zone that the Essex Carrier Group was patrolling to prevent ships carrying Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba and also to prevent Soviet Submarines from passing by either. we might have seen the beginnings of World War 3 there, as the Soviet Submarines which patrolled that area were loaded with nuclear-tipped torpedoes and the missiles which were located on Cuba were also short to medium range nuclear missiles. But even so, after a ridiculous amount of correspondence between the two superpowers, Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove his missiles from Cuba as long as JF Kennedy agreed to not invade Cuba. Agreeing to these terms Kennedy swore by everything holy not to invade, and Khrushchev did remove his missiles. The crisis was over.


As a result of what war does JFK agree to pull American nuclear missiles out of turkey?

This did not come about because of any "war", but due to the confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union called the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. The US agitation over the missiles in Cuba was matched by Soviet agitation over the missiles in Turkey and the Soviets agreed that they would withdraw their weapons from Cuba if the US did similarly in Turkey.


Why was cuba considered an instigator during the cold war between the us and the soviet union?

Firstly, because the Castro revolutionaries brought Cuba from the US sphere of influence into the Soviet sphere of influence. Secondly, because it had agreed to serve as a base and launching pad for Soviet atomic missiles aimed at the US.


What incident was the most serious during the Cold War?

The Cuban Missile crisis. USSR stationed missiles in Cuba in response to the U.S. stationing missiles in Turkey. Both of these were strategic points for range. Fidel Castro agreed to have the missiles built in Cuba because it gave him power on the international stage. There was a point when Soviet war ships were approaching a water boundary set up by the U.S. and the two world powers were on the brink of nuclear war, but no missiles were fired. *you should watch Thirteen Days


What did the US and the Soviet Union agree to do under the terms of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)?

The two countries agreed to produce fewer missiles.


Why didn't the US overthrow Castro?

Castro took charge of Cuba in 1959. The US tried to invade and overthrow Castro's government in the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion; the country repelled the US forces. Cuba had become allies with the Soviet Union in 1959, and after the failed US invasion attempt, the Soviet Union and Cuba agreed to secretly station nuclear missiles in Cuba. The US was already experiencing tension with the Soviet Union; if they attacked Cuba again, the Soviet Union/Cuba would react by initiating war via the missiles. The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the US to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and after the removal of the missiles was negotiated, the US backed down because they didn't want tensions to heighten again. This happened during the Cold War, which started in 1947 and didn't end until 1991. The embargo set up by the US against Cuba in 1962 is still in effect today; other US interactions with Cuba have been minimal.


How did the Cuban missiles come to an end?

The U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba. They also agreed the removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey in return the Soviets took the missiles from Cuba.


Cuba missiles how did us react?

The United States, under JFK, ordered the Soviet Union, who first put them there, to take them out immediately. They then prepared for an Army invasion of Cuba in case they had to take the missiles out by force. When a blockade by the United States was put into action to prevent more missiles coming into Cuba, the Soviet Union took the missiles back as long as the United States agreed to have nothing ever to do with Cuba. This is why all relations to Cuba were cut off by the United States.