Transcript Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis
Deterrence: build up military/arms to prevent a war.
Bully complex: pick on a weaker person, but if strong,
prevents from being picked on.
Colonization of Cuba
Spanish Colony –
• Christopher Columbus in 1492
• Series of rebellions began in the 19th century for
Cuban independence
Spanish–American War –
• 1898 between Spain and the United States
• Independence of Cuba
• American Imperialism
– Protect democracy
– Dictators! And Corruption!
Cuban Revolution –
Fidel Castro, communist revolutionary overthrew
Batista regime and became the leader of Cuba.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
• US sponsored rebels invaded Cuba to
overthrow Fidel Castro from ruling Cuba.
• Unsuccessful attempt – embarrassment
to the Presidency – John F. Kennedy (JFK)
• Castro was afraid of another invasion –
agreement with USSR, to allow Soviet
Missiles in Cuba.
Nikita
Khrushchev
First Secretary of
the Central
Committee
of the
Communist Party
of the Soviet
Union
EXCOMM
Executive Committee of the National Security Council, advise President John F.
Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
• 13 days of negotiations
between United States and
the Soviet Union to remove
the missiles in Cuba.
• Blockade – quarantine of
Cuba
Outcome
• Soviets remove the missiles in Cuba and
the US removed their missiles from
Turkey
• Khrushchev will lose popularity and will
be replaced
I hate this
guy!
Grrrrr~~~