Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
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- Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
- USSR
- Nikita Khrushchev
- USA
- John F.Kennedy
- Kennedy was prepared to risk nuclear war as Latin America was the US's sphere of influence.
- 22 October: Kennedy announced a quarantine zone around Cuba,
- Soviet ships turned away.
- Agreement made that Khrushchev would remove all missiles from Cuba, and the US would remove missiles from Turkey.
- Soviet ships turned away.
- 22 October: Kennedy announced a quarantine zone around Cuba,
- Kennedy was prepared to risk nuclear war as Latin America was the US's sphere of influence.
- Dean Rusk (US Secretary of State) 'The superpowers were eyeball to eyeball'
- American spy planes took photos of missile construction in Cuba.
- Bases were for Soviet medium range ballistic missiles.
- John F.Kennedy
- It was the closest the world had ever come to a full scale nuclear war.
- Cuba
- Fidel Castro
- Che Guevara
- Cuba had been a US sphere of influence since 1898.
- This changed when the corrupt Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by Castro in 1959.
- The American gov. cut off all trade in arms to Cuba after the revolution.
- The US decided to cut its trade in sugar with Cuba- therefore having serious consequences for the Cuban econcomy
- Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961. American defeat...
- This invasion caused relations to further deteriorate.
- The US decided to cut its trade in sugar with Cuba- therefore having serious consequences for the Cuban econcomy
- This invasion caused relations to further deteriorate.
- Fidel Castro
- Results
- "Hot line link"
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963
- Detente
- USSR
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