Majo Major Consequences Of The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile crisis is also known as the Caribbean crisis, which was the thirteen days confrontation among the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the deployment of American ballistic missile in Turkey and Italy with the subsequent deployment of the Soviet ballistic missile in Cuba. This conflict result as the beginning of the Cold War to grow into the full-scale nuclear war. In Cuban Missile crisis, the Soviets had begun to build facilities to deploy medium-range and intermediate-range missiles with nuclear capability on the island of Cuba, just 90 miles off the United States. The government of Washington, with President John F. Kennedy at its head, was not willing to tolerate such a threat so close to home. The tense negotiations to achieve the dismantling of the missiles lasted from October 16 to October 28, 1962. In less than two weeks the world approached a huge real possibility of a nuclear confrontation.
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Also publicly, the United States promises that they will not invade Cuba in the future (Allison, 1969). Secretly, it also agrees to remove missiles with nuclear warheads from Italy and Turkey. The missile crisis is known in Cuba as the October crisis and in Russia as the Caribbean crisis. One of the consequences was the creation of a line of direct communication between the White House and the Kremlin. Some historians point out that Khrushchev's real intention in deploying the missiles in Cuba was to control West Berlin. The missiles deployed in Cuba would be used in this context as a sufficient reason for the Western powers (The USA, UK, and France) to allow him to achieve his
Also publicly, the United States promises that they will not invade Cuba in the future (Allison, 1969). Secretly, it also agrees to remove missiles with nuclear warheads from Italy and Turkey. The missile crisis is known in Cuba as the October crisis and in Russia as the Caribbean crisis. One of the consequences was the creation of a line of direct communication between the White House and the Kremlin. Some historians point out that Khrushchev's real intention in deploying the missiles in Cuba was to control West Berlin. The missiles deployed in Cuba would be used in this context as a sufficient reason for the Western powers (The USA, UK, and France) to allow him to achieve his