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Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war as the two Super Powers stared each other down over the placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba by the Soviets.
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What were the kind of guidelines modified by Cuban predilection in the Cuban revolution?
They are treated according with how the person in question behaves as an individual Cuban or not Cuban.
What is the paradox of the nuclear war?
There is no winner.
Nuclear war has no inherent paradox (that is, it is not inherently self-contradictory). However, large-scale nuclear war has all the characteristics of a Pyrrhic victory - that is, the cost for 'victory' is so high, that the difference between victory and defeat can be seen as negligible.
Or, to quote the WOPR machine from the 1983 movie War Games, "The only winning move is not to play."
How did Kennedy prevent completion of missile bases in cuba?
Kennedyapproved a naval blockade, to stop the flow of supplies toCuba
What happened during the sectional crisis?
The North and the south were separated into to different societies and had different economic systems
How did the Cuban missile crisis benefit President Kennedy?
It proved he had excellent leadership qualities.
Did the Cold War affect the economy?
The cold war divided Europe and Germany after WW2. The Western European countries, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom as well as Canada and the United States, formed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). USSR took the Eastern European countries as satellite countries. East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria had be influenced and controlled by the USSR.
The Cold War divided Europe into two armed camps. There was very little contact between the two blocs. Even traditionally 'Western' cities like Prague seemed to be in another world.
Why did president John F. Kennedy consider cuba a ''communist satellite on our very doorstep?
Cuba is just 90 miles away - the USA consider it to be in their 'backyard'.
How did the Cuban missile crisis lead to increased communication between the us and soviet union?
There had to be a hot line between us so we would be alerted if, at any point, war was announced. We would be called into the war for sure so we had to know when it would happen.
Why was the missile crisis a humiliation for the soviet union Explain?
Russia sent ships carrying missiles to Cuba. America warned the Russians not to carry on, and to turn the ships round. Up until the last minute, there was a possibility of World War 3. Thankfully, the Russians saw sense and withdrew the ships, so averting any further conflict.
Why was the us so nervous about the missiles in Cuba?
The Cuban Missile Crisis had to do with the fact that the United States had been taking extensive advantage of the relative inability for Soviet missiles to hit the U.S. during the early 1960's. In the United States, a lot of intelligence said that the nuclear war would be limited to maybe a few metropolitan centers in the continental United States, because Soviet missiles weren't reliable enough to reach a good distance into the continental U.S. like say, Kansas or Nebraska.
The Soviets, if they had launched from major bases they had, like Khabarovsk, or Poltava, the distance for those missiles was at least 4,500 miles; which gave the Americans a LOT of time to take cover once the missiles were discovered to have been launched.
It wasn't a big deal. However, 90 miles distance [as it was from Cuba], meant the Russians had not only the whole continental US under the eye of nuclear warheads, but the "runaway" effect that the Americans were taking advantage was gone. It would be like Al-Qaeda moving from the middle of Afghanistan, and then moving base to 100 miles south of the Mexican border. Even though the U.S. was doing it to the Soviets at the time, when the tables were turned, it created a lot of fear in the U.S. because it went from a "somebody else" problem to a "it could easily be me" problem within 24 hours.
For the Soviets, they loved the fact that they were striking fear in the U.S. and they liked the expansion of their capabilities, so when the U.S. threatened them, they used the prior missile silos they set up in Cuba to pressure the U.S. into backing down. The administration at the time did not like it, so we pressured back, with a naval blockade. At that time, once news media of the time got the go-ahead, the crisis was publicized.
Americans watched as they heard reports that U.S. warships blockaded Cuba, that the Soviets were threatening nuclear retaliation, and the nervousness escalated to where both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were deploying strategic nuclear missiles to devastate the other, including a few in Cuba. The nervousness led to an almost complete and total breakdown to nuclear blows. Although the U.S. could on the whole, still stand after the nuclear strikes; the new edge that was delivered in Cuba by the Russian missile systems caused the two parties, America and the Soviet Union to come to a compromise. The U.S. would take out missile silos within a center range of Russian cities, and the Soviets would respond in kind.
That, my friend, is the story of the Cuban missile crisis.
What us president was involved in the Cuban missile crisis and what was his role?
President John F. Kennedy was the active President during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His role was to successfully get the Soviet Union to remove their Nuclear Missiles from Cuba in 10 days as a threat to the United States of America.
Why was Britain humiliated at the end of the Suez crisis?
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How did the soviet unions fall affect other communist countries?
The Soviet Union was the center of communism. When it fell other communist countries either adopted democracy or free-market reforms.
