Cuban Missile Crisis Summary
Cuban missile crisis- review on events of important history
The world was on the edge of nuclear war with the cabin missile crisis. The Cuban revolution, Bay of Pigs, blockade or quarantine, and the cold war. There were just a few of the many contributing factors that led to the Cuban missile crisis. However, it was long before the United States and the Soviet Union were at odds with one another. Both nations revolved around one main conflict, communism.
The United States of America supported and funded many anti-communist acts. This is what had first provoked the USSR or Soviet Union to face the United States in such a manner where they were enemies to the us and the U.S. was an enemy to them. Soon the USSR decided to take action by binding …show more content…
made their first move, on March 1960, a mission called the Bay of Pigs was executed. This mission consisted of a group of Cuban exiles also known as ______ that the United States had trained and armed. Similar missions have been performed in other places of the world and have turned to be great success, for instance Guatemala. However when the plan was a go, something went wrong. The Cubans were one step ahead of the United States of America. The Cuban exiles arrived at the island only to be immediately ambushed. As the exiles had called for troops from the United States, no one answered, their request for help was denied. Therefore the plain was a overwhelming failure on the U.S., however if President John F. Kennedy had taken that one more second to think about sending the U.S. navy or army into action, we might as well have just started WWIII. It was that position in the crisis that John F. Kennedy is most well-known for in the Cuban missile …show more content…
The origin of these weapons would have been found in the Soviet Union. Such a threat aroused the United States thoughts on how to stop or at least slow down the arrival of such weapons. President john F. Kennedy had an idea, originally designed by Dwight d. Eisenhower, a blockade on Cuba. Of course this would be known as an act of war, so the U.S. named it quarantine. Such a plan would set a line on which the U.S. navy patrolled. the limits of the islands blockade summed up to about 8oo miles.
All this pressure was put onto Cuba to force negotiation. After ____ days, finally Cuba decided it was time to bring the tension down with a simple negotiation. That simply stated that Cuba would not only stop the buildup of missile sites but begin deconstructing of them too however, they would not do so if the United States hadn’t taken their missiles that were stationed in turkey down, along with a speech that was to be given publicly establishing that we would not interfere with Cuba’s wellbeing=g and we would not invade the Cubans land. Hours later the United States had taken the
The world was on the edge of nuclear war with the cabin missile crisis. The Cuban revolution, Bay of Pigs, blockade or quarantine, and the cold war. There were just a few of the many contributing factors that led to the Cuban missile crisis. However, it was long before the United States and the Soviet Union were at odds with one another. Both nations revolved around one main conflict, communism.
The United States of America supported and funded many anti-communist acts. This is what had first provoked the USSR or Soviet Union to face the United States in such a manner where they were enemies to the us and the U.S. was an enemy to them. Soon the USSR decided to take action by binding …show more content…
made their first move, on March 1960, a mission called the Bay of Pigs was executed. This mission consisted of a group of Cuban exiles also known as ______ that the United States had trained and armed. Similar missions have been performed in other places of the world and have turned to be great success, for instance Guatemala. However when the plan was a go, something went wrong. The Cubans were one step ahead of the United States of America. The Cuban exiles arrived at the island only to be immediately ambushed. As the exiles had called for troops from the United States, no one answered, their request for help was denied. Therefore the plain was a overwhelming failure on the U.S., however if President John F. Kennedy had taken that one more second to think about sending the U.S. navy or army into action, we might as well have just started WWIII. It was that position in the crisis that John F. Kennedy is most well-known for in the Cuban missile …show more content…
The origin of these weapons would have been found in the Soviet Union. Such a threat aroused the United States thoughts on how to stop or at least slow down the arrival of such weapons. President john F. Kennedy had an idea, originally designed by Dwight d. Eisenhower, a blockade on Cuba. Of course this would be known as an act of war, so the U.S. named it quarantine. Such a plan would set a line on which the U.S. navy patrolled. the limits of the islands blockade summed up to about 8oo miles.
All this pressure was put onto Cuba to force negotiation. After ____ days, finally Cuba decided it was time to bring the tension down with a simple negotiation. That simply stated that Cuba would not only stop the buildup of missile sites but begin deconstructing of them too however, they would not do so if the United States hadn’t taken their missiles that were stationed in turkey down, along with a speech that was to be given publicly establishing that we would not interfere with Cuba’s wellbeing=g and we would not invade the Cubans land. Hours later the United States had taken the