How Did The Cuban Missile Crisis Affect Us-Ir Relations

If you ask any person what the tensest two weeks in the world were, they would tell you that it was the Cuban Missile Crisis. This event was the closest the world has ever come to a full scale nuclear war that would have annihilated the human species and would have left the world as a nuclear wasteland. So how did the Cuban Missile Crisis affect US - USSR relations? After tension deescalated between the USSR and the USA, the Moscow – Washington hotline was established, the two superpowers turned away from direct confrontations to proxy wars, and the United States and the USSR began engaging in peaceful races such as the Space Race that didn’t endanger the existence of either nation, rather than the nuclear race. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a turning point in foreign relations; its effects can be seen in the diplomatic
The origins of the crisis date back to 1959 when a revolution put Fidel Castro as the ruler of a new, socialist Cuba. The US, fearing a communist state in their backyard, wanted to do something. The CIA tried multiple times to assassinate Castro, without luck. [Swift] Inevitably, the US resorted to an invasion of Cuba with the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. Not only did this invasion fail, but it left Cuba looking for an ally. The USSR was more than happy to have an ally so close to America, and as a result, the Soviets started building missile launching platforms in Cuba while the US did the same in Turkey. Once the US found out about the missiles, John F. Kennedy enforced a blockade, effectively blocking off any ships into Cuba. After 13 tense days, a deal was struck between the USSR and the USA. The Soviets would withdraw their missiles from Cuba, and in return, the US would promise to never invade Cuba without direct provocation and secretly remove their missiles from Turkey. [The Cuban Missile Crisis] This period was the closest the world ever came to a thermonuclear