Cuban Missile Crisis

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On April 17, 1961, approximately 1,400 members of a CIA-trained Cuban exile force landed at the Bay of Pigs, in an attempt to overthrow Castro. The U.S. publicly denied any involvement. I guess you could call the Invasion : "The bay of pigs Invasion".

Most believe Soviet Premier Kruschev believed the young, newly-elected President Kennedy would not do anything about the Soviets' putting strategic weapons in Cuba.

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October 1962. When the Soviet Union secretly put nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba, it nearly started a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The missiles were discovered by routine spy-plane surveillance. The missiles were still in the process of being made launch-ready. However, President Kennedy had very little time to make a decision regarding what to do about it. His military advisers all but demanded a full-scale air strike, followed by an invasion of the island. Instead, President Kennedy ordered the U.S. Navy to "quarantine" the island by not allowing any Soviet ships to travel to Cuba. This, combined with diplomacy, forced Soviet Premier Kruschev's hand, and the missiles were withdrawn.

John F. Kennedy was the President in October, 1962 when the Russian ships carrying missiles turned by upon meeting the US blockage of Cuba.

You need to work this answer abit but the jist of it is:

YES the Cuban Missile Crisis was a turning point in the cold war,because:

1. Khrushchev lost prestige - the Russian army generals didn't forgive for having chosen peace (what ither choice did he have?). China broke from Russia, saw her as unable tostand up to the forces of the West.

2. Kennedy gained prestige, his cool yet hawkish response was greatly praised. He was seen as the man 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 future crisis situation.

4. In 1963, they agreed a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty +Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

5. Cuba remained a Communist dictatorship, but America left it alone.

NO, it wasn't a turning point because:

1. Ideologies on both sides remained the same, both superpowers still had the same suspicions towards each other. Changed actions not convictions!

2. Tensions arose through the proxy-wars (ie: Vietnam, Afghanistan...)

3. Peace had been accepted mainly because there was NO alternative apart from nuclear annihilation.

4. Crisis was a "pretext", only forced them to physically experience what they had been imagining for several years already, less a consequence of the crisis then of what led up to it.

Kennedy prevented completion of missile bases in Cuba by approving a naval blockade. This in turn stopped supplies from making it to Cuba.

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There wasn't a literal threat. The Russians, (Whom we didn't like very much because of their communism) were sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, which is very close to the USA, and had a somewhat crazy guy as president. But, the US created a blockade to keep any ships from getting into Cuba. But, Russia's navy went full steam ahead towards the Blockade... Then Finally at the last moment, The Soviets turned back. The world was at peace again.

So, To answer the question... We didn't like communism, and the world new that. Russia was communist. Them sending Nuclear weaponry to a crazy guy, made us worried about a World War 3. Therefore that was the threat.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. In September 1962, the Cuban and Soviet governments began to surreptitiously build bases in Cuba for a number of medium- and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental United States. On October 14, a United States U-2 photo-reconnaissance plane captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba. The Americans feared the Soviet expansion of Stalinism, but for a Latin American country to ally openly with the USSR was regarded as unacceptable, given the Soviet-American enmity since the end of the WWII in 1945. Such an involvement would also directly defy the Monroe Doctrine, a United States policy which held that European powers should not interfere with states in the Western Hemisphere.

it was seen as an embarrassment.

the US was caught deceiving the United Nations. 114 invaders died 157 Cuban soldiers were killed and 1189 invaders were taken prisoner.

For the same reason the USSR government wanted the US missiles in Turkey removed.

They were seen as a threat and a provocation.

Both the US and USSR got the missiles removed that they wanted removed (but the US wanted to pretend removing the missiles in Turkey had no connection to removing the missiles in Cuba for political reasons, and Khrushchev allowed this).

They stole them from other leading countries with U.S.S.R. spies.

The Bay of Pigs invasion that President Kennedy authorized took place in Cuba.

Cold war; upping the ante.

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.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Because the cuban militia and its army were prepared an already scared of a US attack. Also because the men attacking cuba were promised US air support but JFK declined the support fearing the Soviet response to the attack

The Cuban Missile Crisis began 22 October1962. Following intelligence reports that the USSR was installing ballistic missiles in Cuba capable of hitting US and Canadian targets, President John Kennedy announced an American naval blockade of the island, threatening further action if preparation of the sites continued. Informed of Kennedy's intentions only one-and-a-half hours in advance, the issue for the Canadian government was whether to comply with an American request to move Canadian forces to an alert status known as "Defcon 3."

With the approval of Minister of National Defence Douglas Harkness, Canadian units quietly did so, but formal authorization was delayed while Cabinet debated October 23-24. Harkness argued that the nature of the crisis, combined with existing arrangements for defence co-operation, made the alert necessary. Fearing a Canadian alert would provoke the USSR and believing the American Cuban policy to be generally unbalanced, angered by the lack of advance consultation and concerned about implications for Canadian policy on nuclear weapons, Prime Minister John DIEFENBAKER and Secretary of State for External Affairs Howard Green were reluctant to acquiesce to Kennedy. About half of Canada's ministers remained undecided, but as Soviet ships approached the quarantine zone later in the week the Harkness position gained support and on October 24 the Diefenbaker government authorized the Defcon 3 alert.

Canada's hesitant response reflected in part the desire of the prime minister and others to preserve the independence of Canadian foreign policy and to maintain a balanced posture in crisis conditions. The delay, however, was widely criticized and contributed to a growing perception of indecisiveness in the Diefenbaker government. It also exacerbated already difficult relations with the Kennedy administration and fuelled further controversy over nuclear weapons. The crisis itself ended October 27-28 when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to dismantle and remove the USSR missiles in Cuba.

The Soviet Union eventually dismantled the missile sites in Cuba.

U2 Spy planes took arial photographs

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On October 29, 1956, Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president jamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis.

The Israelis soon were joined by French and British forces, which nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict, and damaged their relationships with the United States. In the end, the British, French and Israeli governments withdrew their troops in late 1956 and early 1957.