What Extent Was The American Policy Of Containment In Cuba Was A Total Failure?
The American policy of containment in Cuba was a total failure. To what extent do you agree with this statement?
It is often said that the containment policy during the Cuban missile crisis was a success on America’s part, but was it really? America lost a loyal ally, almost caused a nuclear war and Cuba still stayed communist. America had to promise never interfere with Cuba again, and hence, America would not be able to regain any control or get rid of Castro as it had set out to do before the crisis.
Containment was an American policy which employed several strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A creation of the Cold War, this policy was first used by Truman to respond to the Soviet Union’s actions to enlarge the domain …show more content…
This primary approach in this strategy involved the provision of either military support, economic and/or technical assistance to non-communist countries. It was perceived that by doing so it would contain the growing influence and power of the Soviet Union over other non-communist country’s political systems, thus, effectively blocking the expansion of the USSR and communism. It was originally devised by US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, who is best known as “the father of containment”. It is his writings that inspired the Truman Doctrine and the became the genesis of US foreign policy of containment during the Truman …show more content…
interests in Cuba. At that time, American corporations and wealthy individuals owned almost half of Cuba’s sugar plantations and the majority of its cattle ranches, mines and utilities. Batista supported their operations. He was also reliably anticommunist. Castro, by contrast, disapproved of the approach that Americans in Cuba. It was time, he believed, for Cubans to assume more control of their nation. “Cuba Sí, Yanquis No” became one of his most popular slogans.
Almost as soon as he came to power, Castro took steps to reduce American influence on the island. He nationalized American-dominated industries such as sugar and mining, introduced land reform schemes and called on other Latin American governments to act with more autonomy.
In May 1960, Castro established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and the United States responded to this in line with its containment policy approach i.e. by prohibiting the importation of Cuban sugar. To prevent the Cuban economy from collapsing–sugar exports to the United States comprised 80 percent of the country’s total–the USSR agreed to buy the
It is often said that the containment policy during the Cuban missile crisis was a success on America’s part, but was it really? America lost a loyal ally, almost caused a nuclear war and Cuba still stayed communist. America had to promise never interfere with Cuba again, and hence, America would not be able to regain any control or get rid of Castro as it had set out to do before the crisis.
Containment was an American policy which employed several strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A creation of the Cold War, this policy was first used by Truman to respond to the Soviet Union’s actions to enlarge the domain …show more content…
This primary approach in this strategy involved the provision of either military support, economic and/or technical assistance to non-communist countries. It was perceived that by doing so it would contain the growing influence and power of the Soviet Union over other non-communist country’s political systems, thus, effectively blocking the expansion of the USSR and communism. It was originally devised by US diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, who is best known as “the father of containment”. It is his writings that inspired the Truman Doctrine and the became the genesis of US foreign policy of containment during the Truman …show more content…
interests in Cuba. At that time, American corporations and wealthy individuals owned almost half of Cuba’s sugar plantations and the majority of its cattle ranches, mines and utilities. Batista supported their operations. He was also reliably anticommunist. Castro, by contrast, disapproved of the approach that Americans in Cuba. It was time, he believed, for Cubans to assume more control of their nation. “Cuba Sí, Yanquis No” became one of his most popular slogans.
Almost as soon as he came to power, Castro took steps to reduce American influence on the island. He nationalized American-dominated industries such as sugar and mining, introduced land reform schemes and called on other Latin American governments to act with more autonomy.
In May 1960, Castro established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and the United States responded to this in line with its containment policy approach i.e. by prohibiting the importation of Cuban sugar. To prevent the Cuban economy from collapsing–sugar exports to the United States comprised 80 percent of the country’s total–the USSR agreed to buy the