Cuban Missile Crisis

It is the point at which the US and the USSR came closest to unleashing an all-out nuclear exchange.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion (known as La Batalla de Girón, or Playa Girón in Cuba), was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The Invasion was launched April 17, 1961. (Wikipedia)

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in October 1962, during the Cold War. It was an effort of the United states to prevent Russia from delivering missiles to Cuba, which would be a direct threat to the national security of the United States.

It was called the Cold War. Some of its significant events included Korea, Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, the building of the Berlin Wall, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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.

He all ready knew that they had "long range missiles" in the world,but through the spy planes he discovered that they were on Cuba. That placed them in our sphere of influence and they had to be moved. On Cuba they were only 90 miles from the United States. Even today Russian ships and submarines dock in Cuba.

The United States, The Soviet Union, and Cuba

run a blockade or quarantine

take out all the missile sites

conduct a military invasion

at that time, the USSR was boycotting the un for it let KMT government(in Taiwan) occupied official seat in security, ignored mao's government in beijing.

so there's no veto to stop un got a force.

and it really was the NK first attactde SK`

Nikita Kruschev. He became Secretary of the Communist Party in 1956, and later went on to serve as the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union until he left office in 1964. It was his idea to place missles in Cuba capable of reaching almost any point in the United States.

Nikita Khrushchev.

That list would take forever to crank out.

The three major or central figures were Fidel Castro of Cuba, who wanted a defenisve and offensive nuclear missle system that could enhance the power and prestige of a small island in the Western Hemisphere.

Nikita Kruchev sought a method to counterbalance the IRBM threat that

the US had introduced around the Soviet Union. Cuba as a missle base

was a Golden Opporunity that might not be presened ever again.

JFK selected an unconvential way to revert a crisis to something that may

be resolved in the diplomatic arena. International Law spells out the

difference between a Quarantine and a Blockade and a JFK chose the

language that enabled negotiations and the withdrawal of the Soviet

weapons from Cuba.

Cubans were living under the corrupt Batista government. Although the United States knew he was corrupt, they continued to support the government, because there were numerous American business interests there. Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer, tried to fight the corruption and inequality through the legal system, but failed. As a result, Castro along with revolutionary Che Guevara led the people in revolt. Once independence had been won, Castro attempted to secure support from the United States, but was unsuccessful. As a result, he turned to the Soviet Union, who agreed to support the fledgling nation. The effects of the revolution caused widespread unemployment, and plunged Cuba, which had once been the most successful Latin American country, into poverty and zero growth. Professionals and intellectuals were forced into re-education camps, or deported. It caused the United States and Cuba, to abolish friendly relations.

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, people around the world reacted predominantly with fear and anxiety at the prospect of the outbreak of nuclear (or any full-fledged) war between the Soviet Union and the United States. At the same time, various nations spoke up on behalf of Cuba and/or the Soviet Union, while others spoke up in defense of the United States, with still other world-leaders and nations urging peace to both sides.

He wasn't able to do much. The Russians were in charge of the missiles on Cuba and not Castro, so it was up to them to respond to JFK.

There is no picture of any actual missiles in Cuba.. All the pictures are of sites and trucks and empty carriers and items covered up. The entire ploy was to get the US to remove Missiles from Turkey.

A spy plane took a picture of the where the missiles were being stored.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and Cuba were both communist countries, and the Soviet Union provided money and supplies to Cuba during the US trade embargo with Cuba. After the collapse of the Soviet Union all aid to Cuba was cut off. Cuba's close proximity to the United States gave the Soviet Union a foothold in the Western hemisphere at the US doorstep.

Yes there is pen-is but not Denis. So the answer is okay.

So that the whole world would try to conform to American culture. It worked.

Because it was such a failure. The US was supporting the attempts of Cubans to overthrow the Castro Government. When the attempt failed the US ended up looking rather foolish.

It also emboldened the Castro dictatorship and its Soviet backing.

I am neutral, neither American or Russia, but I would say the Russians as they were blatantly about to attack the U.S

Within its brief but highly tense duration, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis affected the world in a deeply negative way: it caused fear and anxiety on a widespread scale while also causing further polarization of nations supporting Cuba and the Soviet Union and nations supporting the United States. At the same time, it provided individuals and societies an opportunity to demonstrate courage and determination; further, a number of world-leaders used the crisis as an opportunity to speak up powerfully on behalf of peace throughout the world.

The Bay of Pigs occurred on April 17, 1961. The Bay of Pigs was a failed attempt to invade Cuba. John F. Kennedy was the U.S. President at the time.

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Any conflict between the superpowers had the potential to become a nuclear war.