"We went Eyeball to eyeball and i think the other fellow just blinked"
The Cuban Missile Crisis
*American's supported a corrupt regime under Fulgencio Batista until Cuban revolution in 1959
*Fidel Castro took over
*Brought communism with him
*Makes all the mobs angry because they lost all their stuff
*Alligned with the Soviets
*The Bay of Pigs (Failed invasion of Cuba)
*Tried to take Castro out of it
*Gorilla's were captured because Kennedy had taken out the airforce
*Had a fall out with the CIA
*1962 Soviets begin to put Nuclear weapons into Cuba (Noticed by U2 spy planes)
*Fidel Castro took over
*Brought communism with him
*Makes all the mobs angry because they lost all their stuff
*Alligned with the Soviets
*The Bay of Pigs (Failed invasion of Cuba)
*Tried to take Castro out of it
*Gorilla's were captured because Kennedy had taken out the airforce
*Had a fall out with the CIA
*1962 Soviets begin to put Nuclear weapons into Cuba (Noticed by U2 spy planes)
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The Crisis
*The US had 3 options:
-Diplomatic solution (Negotiated settlement)
-A conventional attack (Air attack followed by invasion)
-A naval blockade
-Robert Kennedy, attorney general, convinced Security Council to go with blockade
-Ships turn around at the quarantine
-2 Letters sent from Krushchev to Kennedy
-Brinkmanship ensues (U.N. gets involved)
-Russians pull out of Cuba in exchange for a removal of missiles in Turkey at a later date
-Directly resulted in the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1962
-The "Hot Line" literally a phone line that went from the president of the United States to the secretary of Cuba
-Diplomatic solution (Negotiated settlement)
-A conventional attack (Air attack followed by invasion)
-A naval blockade
-Robert Kennedy, attorney general, convinced Security Council to go with blockade
-Ships turn around at the quarantine
-2 Letters sent from Krushchev to Kennedy
-Brinkmanship ensues (U.N. gets involved)
-Russians pull out of Cuba in exchange for a removal of missiles in Turkey at a later date
-Directly resulted in the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1962
-The "Hot Line" literally a phone line that went from the president of the United States to the secretary of Cuba
Summary
The Cuban Missile crisis caused a lot of stress between the Americans and the Cubans once this crisis hit. It lead to alot of new ideas that helped out both nations.