Documents and Film 11/27/12 One Hell of a Gamble The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to nuclear war than perhaps any other incident in the Cold War (1946– 1991). The crisis began on October 14, 1962, when American U-2 spy planes flying over Cuba brought back photographs revealing that sites for medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles were under construction. The Cuban missiles posed a serious strategic problem for President John
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Name______________________ The Cuban Missile Crisis: Introductory Research *SUMMATIVE (SS2) open-note quiz over this information tomorrow! DIRECTIONS Define each of the following terms/people using short, fragmented notes and phrases. If you quote a source word-for-word, be sure to put the phrase in quotation marks. Include a short citation of the sources you use, even if you’re just copying-and-pasting a Wikipedia site. Terms/People to Research Fidel Castro- Communist, Prime Minister
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Nuclear missiles threatened to devastate the world; all it took was the push of a button by the two superpowers of the world at that time. By the 1960s the tension and mutual distrust between the countries had reached an all time high, leading to an event that could spell the end. This was the Cuban Missile Crisis; it was a twelve day ordeal where the world was on the brink of nuclear destruction. In those twelve days, JFK took a stand for the ideal of Democracy in the climate of fear. From
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Fifty years ago, The Cuban Missile Crisis made a historic event which put many countries in the world on panic of a nuclear war. United States and Russia nearly started a third world war during The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The Cuban Revolution, Communism, and military competition, were causes that put the world at the edge of a disastrous third world war. However, that was not the effect, thanks to the President at that time who was John F Kennedy and Premier Nikita
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Cuban Missile Crisis 20th Century History-Unit2 Area of Study1-Ideas and political power Outcome1 The Cuban Missile Crisis was an event that almost lead to the dreaded nuclear war between the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R. On October 15, 1962 American spy planes spotted nuclear weapons being armed on the small island of Cuba who had just recently rebelled against its former American rule. This lead towards the a near nuclear war situation, with it only being neatly avoided by some desperate
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Cuban Missile Crisis The lives of the world were in the hands of President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet’s new leader, Nikita Khrushchev as they struggle to reach an agreement due to the growing tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis started when the United States discovered the Soviets had set up nuclear missiles off the coast of Florida, on the little country of Cuba. On October 22nd, President Kennedy announced to the public about the discovery of the nuclear missiles on Cuba and
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 2 week long conflict between Cuba and the Soviet Union on one side and the United States on the other. The crisis occurred during the middle of the Cold War from the 14th October to the 28th 1962 and was the closest the world has ever come to a worldwide nuclear conflict. The crisis had started after a U-2 plane from America had spotted several nuclear missiles camped in Cuba and being a viable threat to America, Washington in particular, after the failed overthrow
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Time of Trial and Error In the fall of 1962, United States President John F. Kennedy stood eyeball to eyeball with the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khruschev, in a contest of wills that would ultimately mean life or death for the citizens of the United States. The drama played out around the world as well as on television. The frightened citizens of the US watched in horror as their President shared the threat that was just beyond their border. This
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The Cuban Missile Crisis is regarded as the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. The Crisis was mainly started by two countries in 1962, one of them the USSR. A Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, was worried about the fact that the US had nuclear missiles only 150 miles away in Turkey, short work for a missile. Also, Khrushchev knew that no matter what Kennedy, President at the time, said while in his campaign, the Americans had more missiles than the Soviets. Thus, the USSR felt endangered
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lives of thousands, perhaps millions, of people in the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was crucial to make the right decision to protect those lives. As relations between the United States and the Soviet Union grew tenser, the need for action quickly became imperative. As pressure rose, President Kennedy was almost at war with both the Soviet Union and his very own military advisors. His advisors were urging a Cuban invasion to dismantle the missiles. This aggressive approach held many concerns. The Soviet
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Cuban Missile Crisis Joshua Rivera October 15, 2013 I. Introduction II. Baslance of Power: Soviet deployment of missile in Cuban III. Kennedy and Khrushcev intentions: missile reported IV. Blockade V. Conclusion The Cuban missile crisis was a conflict between the Soviet Union, Cuba and United States. The Soviet Union had missiles kept in Cuba, United States found out and tensions rose. The Cuban missile crisis became a
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The Cuban missile crisis and its aftermath was the most serious U.S.-Soviet crisis of the Cold War even though the crisis was very short, the crisis was so extreme it finally caught President Kennedy’s eye. The Cuban missile crisis was also the time were the world almost came to nuclear war. The United states armed forces were ready to attack whenever Cuba was going to attack, so Cuba had nuclear missiles aimed right at the Untied States if the United States armed forces invaded the island. However
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(http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org). The fear of nuclear holocaust was the fear of the Cold War, and the fear of a holocaust was nearly a reality in October of 1962, with the Cuban Missile Crisis. It could be said that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the product of two under lying issues: 1) The Soviet Union losing the battle in the missile arms race with the United States, and 2) Fidel Castro’s fear of losing Cuba due to invasion (http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days). However, I believe that a third
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gave the impression to the soviets that the U.S was weak and the President was to young and inexperienced when it came to any crisis. Kennedy also increased forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 in which we came the closest to a nuclear conflict , Kennedy imposed a naval blockade on Cuba and demanded the Soviets remove all missiles from Cuba Before his assassination in 1963 he was able to enact the Nuclear Test-Ban treaty with the Soviets and Britain. One
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Cuba Essay Question 1: The CIA organised a uprising of the Cuban exiles at the bay of pigs in April 1961 The USA banned all trade with Cuba in the autumn of 1960 Fidel Castro nationalised all industry in July 1961 Khrushchev announces that he will protect Cuba by any means necessary against the USA. Question 2: Khrushchev placed missiles on Cuba in order to test Kennedy. This was because Kennedy was a new, young president so announced in September 1961 to see if he could threaten him. Khrushchev
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Study Guide for Cuban Missile Crisis Paper 2 Essay Format: Point 1: Bay of Pigs (1961) What it was Occurred in 1961, was a failed attempt to overthrow Castro’s forces and influence by invading Cuba at the ‘bay of pigs’ which was a beach. However, lack of information about the terrain and underestimation by the CIA led the invasion force to be crushed and a majority of the forces (which was composed mainly of Cuban exiles that were trained by the CIA) were captured. Reason for the invasion
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signed by Kennedy on September 22, 1961. The Peace Corps was made an independent agency in 1981. The Cuban Missile Crisis Gloria Magallanes During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff in October of 1962 over the instillation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. President Kennedy notified the nation of the missiles presence and explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba in a TV address on October
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and the overthrow of Castro to appear to be the work entirely of the Cuban exile community, who were being trained by the CIA. He wanted to be able to deny that the U.S. government had had a hand in any of it. Kennedys other major mistake was cutting back the sixteen bombers that Richard Bissell, the CIA’s chief of operations suggested. The invasion eventually went with eight planes that attacked the three airfields of the Cuban air force knocking out some of the aircrafts, but not enough to do serious
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Why did the Cuban revolution occur? Because the old regime was corrupt, impoverished and brutal. What ‘type’ of revolution was Castro’s revolution? Relatively peaceful, It was political and popular. What was America’s reaction to the Cuban revolution? At first Eisenhower ignored it as he was “too busy”, after I became clear that Cuba was nationalist and had claimed foreign oil refineries. Over 1billion dollars’ worth. Eisenhower placed a trade embargo and started training Cuban exiles to be
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world itself. There has been many controversy over the work he did behind desk of presidency such as Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and his Test Ban Treaty. During all those situations, Kennedy did as much as he wanted to, or at least what he could until he got assassinated early 1960’s. John F Kennedy may have gotten the Bay of Pigs wrong, but following thru with the Cuban Missile Crisis, but after all he went thru since the day he walked in on office, the question many ask, Was he a good enough
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02/21/14 The New World Order In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union. In late April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev came up with the idea of placing intermediate-range missiles (1,000-5,500 km) in Cuba. The idea of a deployment in Cuba would double the Soviet strategic arsenal and provide a real discouragement
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office, Eisenhower planned for the CIA to train Cuban exiles to invade and overthrow the Cuban Government ● Bay of Pigs Invasion: A poorly managed invasion in which 1,400 people were killed or captured. This turned many Cuban Americans against Kennedy and it strengthened Cuban government ● Kennedy to responsibility for the failure but still stressed non-communism B. The Cuban Missile Crisis ● Cuban Missile Crisis: The Soviets were building nuclear missiles around Cuba to protect Castro from another
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Thirteen DAYS Thirteen Days was based on Cuban missile crisis .In 1962 it would’ve been the closet we ever came to a nuclear war in United States of America. A man by the name Nikita Khrushchev was the head of the Soviet Union .He was the man in control of the missiles being place in Cuba to strike and kill 80 million Americans. At the time of this event President John F .Kennedy was in office .He gave orders to the Soviet Union to remove the missile, but as the world waited more ships start moving
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event. For example, a restriction can be govern by a regulation or a law. Optimistically, this will be beneficial to the future. No matter the conclusion, there will be speculations by the people going for, or against. John F Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis and George W. Bush during 9/11 has responses that will accompany these three stages. There was a headache of the relation of Cuba and The United States of America that was often antagonistic. America was greatly abominated by Cuba. Fidel
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Guard but a few years later the support was seen as failure for the reason that it caused the overthrow of a constitutional government. Operation Mongoose belonged as a one of the major CIA covert program. The operations main goal is the overthrow of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. On April 1961 the Bay of pigs invasion failed. Its failure caused the government to further strengthen the use furtive operations under President John F. Kennedy’s request. The CI totaled with 163 operations during the JFK administration
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was the outcome? The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was triggered by the Soviet deployment to Cuba of medium-range, nuclear armed ballistic missiles. The United States demanded that the Soviet Union remove these missiles and imposed a naval blockade on Cuba, threatening to sink any Soviet ships that approached the island without permitting their cargoes to be inspected. Eventually, the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) announced that it would remove the missiles, and the crisis ended. Most historians
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Does President Kennedy deserve a heroic status in the crisis? President Kennedy deserved a heroic status in the crisis because he was the only one who supported the blockade from the beginning, which he continued to promote despite opposition from the military, which hadn’t been done since the crisis began. There was a lot of flip- flopping and not enough decision making as to what to do during the crisis. The decision to create the blockade helped create a solution in which Khrushchev and the
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occurred: Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), the Korean War (1950–1953), the Suez Crisis (1956), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the Vietnam War (1959–1975), the Yom Kippur War (1973), the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (1983), and the “Able Archer” NATO military exercises (1983). The most memorable ones are the Korean War, Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam War, and the falling of the Berlin Wall. Each one of these has had
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However, after the war this wartime alliance began to unravel. The Cold War was waged on political and economic fronts, dominating international affairs for decades and influencing many near disaster crises’. During this time issues such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Red Scare came about ultimately resulting in the issue of an international power struggle and the brink of nuclear war. The causes of the Cold War due to the U.S. were their fear of the spread of Communism, Truman’s dislike and mistrust
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Cuban Missile Crisis Maria Maslen-Lallier It was on October 16, 1962 that the United States was approached with a very dangerous and conflicting problem with the Soviet Union. After sending out American spy planes, pictures of nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba were captured. President John F. Kennedy was informed about this issue but decided not to let the Soviet Union and Cuba know that he knew about it so instead it was
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