1962
To end the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy agreed to a secret deal with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. He promised to publicly announce the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey, which were positioned near the Soviet border, and to refrain from invading Cuba. In return, Khrushchev agreed to dismantle the Soviet missile sites in Cuba, thereby de-escalating the tense standoff between the two superpowers. This agreement helped avert a potential nuclear conflict.
If a new or neutral nation received a BETTER deal (weapons, construction aid, medical aid, technology aid, etc) from the Soviets or Red Chinese they took it. Sometimes a nation might want a certain type of missile. If the US wouldn't sell it or give it to them, and the Red Chinese/Soviets would, then they'd side with them.
Mainly it was the fear of Fidel Castro taking power in Cuba , so close to the U.s.A. additional info The big concern was not so much Castro, but the deals that he made with the Russians. One deal was to let the Russians put missiles on Cuba and since Cuba is only 90 miles off of FLA shores this was too close for the U.S. This is why we had the Cuban Missile crisis.
In the cold war there was never any fighting but the countries that were involved were Russia, America and Cuba. Some have confused the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 with the Cold War. It was a part of the Cold War but not nearly all of it. And there was a great deal of fighting in countries like Greece, Korea, Angola, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Afghanistan and many other places. The global superpowers could not fight directly and keep the Cold War cold, so they fought smaller wars by proxy, used propaganda, espionage, arms escalation, and all methods short of direct warfare.Countries involved in the Cold War were mainly the United States and the Soviet Union, but also China, North and South Korea and Germany.
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The Cuban missile crises was caused by the Soviet Union, who was allied with Cuba. The Soviet Union dispatched missiles to Cuba to strike the U.S. mainland and deal a crippling blow to the U.S. military and morale.
John F. Kennedy won the 1960 election with the help of his promise to deal with the "Cuba problem." He ended up initiating the blockade that still exists today. He also had to deal with the missile crisis and ended up making a deal with the Soviet Union so they would disarm Cuba.
The president of the USA, John F. Kennedy, decided to place a naval blockade on Cuba. The Soviet ships carrying missiles to be placed in the nearly finished Cuban missile silos approached the blockade and failed to stop. Eventually, at the last second, the ships turned around, and a deal had been reached between the two superpowers. The USSR removed the missile bases, and the USA agreed not to invade Cuba and to accept communist control of Cuba. In secret, President Kennedy had agreed to remove the American missiles in Turkey, which were providing the same threat to the USSR as to the USA.
To end the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy agreed to a secret deal with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. He promised to publicly announce the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey, which were positioned near the Soviet border, and to refrain from invading Cuba. In return, Khrushchev agreed to dismantle the Soviet missile sites in Cuba, thereby de-escalating the tense standoff between the two superpowers. This agreement helped avert a potential nuclear conflict.
Due to Kennedy's cautious firmness with Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets publicly dismantled their missiles positioned on Cuba. They returned the parts to the Soviet Union, in exchange for a public US declaration that the US would never invade Cuba.
The US won the Cuban Missile Crisis only by making a secret deal with the Soviet Union. This left Cuba in the hands of Fidel Castro. Although it confirmed the strength of the US in preventing Soviet armaments from being placed in Latin America, Cuba itself regularly provided arms and troops to communist guerrilla movements.The United States further extended its containment policy in Latin America---You're welcome Gradpoint users :)
The US won the Cuban Missile Crisis only by making a secret deal with the Soviet Union. This left Cuba in the hands of Fidel Castro. Although it confirmed the strength of the US in preventing Soviet armaments from being placed in Latin America, Cuba itself regularly provided arms and troops to communist guerrilla movements.The United States further extended its containment policy in Latin America---You're welcome Gradpoint users :)
The US won the Cuban Missile Crisis only by making a secret deal with the Soviet Union. This left Cuba in the hands of Fidel Castro. Although it confirmed the strength of the US in preventing Soviet armaments from being placed in Latin America, Cuba itself regularly provided arms and troops to communist guerrilla movements.The United States further extended its containment policy in Latin America---You're welcome Gradpoint users :)
The US won the Cuban Missile Crisis only by making a secret deal with the Soviet Union. This left Cuba in the hands of Fidel Castro. Although it confirmed the strength of the US in preventing Soviet armaments from being placed in Latin America, Cuba itself regularly provided arms and troops to communist guerrilla movements.The United States further extended its containment policy in Latin America---You're welcome Gradpoint users :)
The US won the Cuban Missile Crisis only by making a secret deal with the Soviet Union. This left Cuba in the hands of Fidel Castro. Although it confirmed the strength of the US in preventing Soviet armaments from being placed in Latin America, Cuba itself regularly provided arms and troops to communist guerrilla movements.The United States further extended its containment policy in Latin America---You're welcome Gradpoint users :)
The US won the Cuban Missile Crisis only by making a secret deal with the Soviet Union. This left Cuba in the hands of Fidel Castro. Although it confirmed the strength of the US in preventing Soviet armaments from being placed in Latin America, Cuba itself regularly provided arms and troops to communist guerrilla movements.The United States further extended its containment policy in Latin America---You're welcome Gradpoint users :)
President Kennedy forced the Soviets to remove all of its missiles from Cuba and promised not to invade Cuba. The so-called deal for the US to remove its missiles from Turkey is problematic.The bottom line was that neither superpowers wanted a thermonuclear war.