Spread Of Communism In The 1960's

Throughout the period of the early 1960’s the world was at the brink of all out nuclear war, a war that would have destroyed the globe leaving irreparable damage to all regions. Tensions during this period were due to the spread of Communism throughout the world, this lead the United States to become very wary of any advancement of Communism in countries who were experiencing an over through of the government. The United States were supporting countries who were in the search of self-determination however they’re major reason for doing this was to prevent the spread of communism. On September 11th 1962 the Russian news agency TASS broadcasted the statement which had just been released by the Russian Government at the Foreign Office in Moscow.
The Cubans choice to go down a more communist form of government over a more economically accessible and American friendly Capitalist format was the primary reasons for their abandonment. The United States fears that the Soviet Union was trying to spread their thoughts throughout the world, however they couldn’t have been more wrong. With the Cuban becoming communist that didn’t mean that they would follow everything that the Soviets did. What the Americans failed to realise was that there were more than one form of Communism. Soviet Communists were very different in a number of ways from the Chinese Communists, thus resulting in many countries who choose to become Communist adapt it to suit
The uses of such an irreparable method of Communism Containment if Moscow should decide to invade Western Europe. The United States strategically placed their nuclear weapons on the Eastern Boarder. They were first placed in Turkey in 1959. Turkey was chosen for a number of reasons however geographical location as the primary reason, Turkey itself is very close to the Soviet Union. Turkey as well as being a NATO member also shared two boarders with Soviet Republic countries providing the United States with a prime position to defend Europe from a Soviet invasion or so they said . However the fundamental reason in which they positioned themselves on the brink of Europe was to implement their policy of containment of communism which was introduced in George Kennan’s Long