Transcript CubanMissileCrisis - joshuabryant

Background
Cuban Missile Placement
 Born out of the Cold War
and the implementation of
bases in Cuba for mediumand intermediate-range
ballistic nuclear missiles
that had a range covering
most of the United States
Background
Jupiter Placement in Italy
 Reaction to the United
State’s 1958 deployment of
Thor in the UK and the
1961 deployments of the
Jupiter IRBMs in Italy and
Turkey which had the range
of striking Moscow with
nuclear warheads
United States’ Stance
 Believed that the placement of missiles in Cuba
threatened the Western Hemisphere’s peace and
economic progress
 Felt that the United States and other nations would be
ignoring their duties toward world peace if they
ignored this act of aggression
 Felt that the US was taking steps towards preventing
the start of a nuclear war
Cuba/USSR’s Stance
 Felt that the United States’ “quarantine” of Cuba was
an act of aggression that was an attempt to circumvent
rules and agreements set up by the United Nations
 Claimed that the weapons were for Cuba’s protection
instead of for offensive purposes
 Felt that the United States were taking steps that would
lead to a thermo-nuclear world war and that the
citizens of the world would have to pay for the reckless
behavior of the United States
Results/Impacts
 The US and USSR reached an agreement which
required all missiles, bases, and soviet weapons in
Cuba be dismantled and returned to Russia and the US
to pull all of its Jupiter missiles out of Italy and Turkey
with United Nations supervision and approval.
 Tensions between the Cuba and the USSR and the
United States remained tense throughout the rest of
the Cold War and would remain tense up until recent
times.