Cuban Missile Crisis

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• The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States that brought the world close to nuclear war.
  • Amidst this backdrop, the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in 1962.
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other.
  • An additional outcome of this Kennedy-Khrushchev Pact that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis was that it effectively strengthened Castro's position by guaranteeing that the U.S. would not invade Cuba.
  • Navy plane flying over a Soviet cargo ship during the Cuban Crisis

• "The Hour of Maximum Danger"

  • Some of the most notable events that stemmed from tenets of JFK's foreign policy initiatives in regard to containing the threat of communism were the Kennedy Doctrine, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the ratification of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
  • The Alliance for Progress, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the increased involvement in Vietnam were also major elements of Kennedy's foreign policy response to the threat of communism.
  • In this policy, Kennedy voiced support for the containment of Communism, the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere, and sought to prevent the spread of communism and Soviet influence in Latin America following the Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in the 1950s.
  • -trained Cubans, called "Brigade 2506," landed on the island.
  • Within two days, the Cuban government had captured or killed the invading exiles, and Kennedy was forced to negotiate for the release of the 1,189 survivors.

• Kennedy's Assassination

  • Although his stance on civil rights had won him support in the African American community and his steely performance during the Cuban Missile Crisis had led his overall popularity to surge, Kennedy understood that he had to solidify his base in the South to secure his reelection.

• The John F. Kennedy Administration

  • Kennedy's foreign policy was dominated by American confrontations with the Soviet Union, manifested by proxy wars in the early stage of the Cold War and coming to the brink of nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

  • The Berlin Blockade (1948–49) was the first major crisis of the Cold War.
  • The expansion and escalation sparked more crises, such as the Suez Crisis (1956), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

• Nixon and Foreign Policy

  • Nixon had been a firm supporter of Kennedy in the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • These activities worried the Soviets and Cubans, who feared Nixon might attack Cuba, in violation of the 1962 agreement which had ended the missile crisis.
  • Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence revealed that the Soviet Union was expanding their base at the Cuban port of Cienfuegos in October of 1970.
  • A minor confrontation ensued, which was concluded with an understanding that the Soviets would not use Cienfuegos for submarines bearing ballistic missiles.
  • The of the energy crisis lingered on throughout the 1970s, amid the weakening competitive position of the dollar in world markets.

• Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East

  • -backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
  • The Cuban Revolution had powerful domestic and international repercussions.
  • The U.S. began the formulation of new plans aimed at destabilizing the Cuban government, collectively known as "The Cuban Project."
  • Relations between the U.S. and Cuba culminated in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • This crisis showed that neither superpower was ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other's retaliation, and led to the first efforts at nuclear disarmament and improving relations.

• Reactions to Sputnik

  • The Sputnik Crisis was the name for the mass panic that gripped American during the Soviets' launching of the space satellite.
  • The Sputnik crisis is the name for the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program.
  • The United States had held itself to be the world leader in space technology and missile development.
  • Eisenhower called the shock the "Sputnik Crisis" because of the looming threat of the Soviet Union.
  • Kennedy, who campaigned in 1960 on closing the "missile gap", to deploy 1,000 Minuteman missiles, far more ICBMs than the Soviets had at the time.

• The Middle East

  • In a reflection of the moral judgments inherent in the conflicts, Gaddafi, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro were named the "unholy trinity."
  • Reagan, however, overlooked the legitimate complaints of the Sandinistas and believed that their rule opened the region to Cuban and Soviet influence.
  • In 1985, he authorized the sale of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Iran in exchange for help retrieving three of the American hostages.

• National Security

  • The development of Intercontinental ballistic missiles made this goal less realistic.
  • In 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced the Crisis Relocation Plan.
  • The plan allowed up to three days for the evacuation to be completed, believing that a nuclear war would not come in a surprise attack but rather as the culmination of a crisis period of rising tensions.