Cuban Missile Crisis: A Foreign Policy Analysis The Cuban Missile Crisis was an exceptionally significant event in history that became the closest confrontation leading to a possible nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. This thirteen-day confrontation’s major occurrences will be analyzed by the rational actor model and how the leaders John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev made rational decisions that led to the avoidance of nuclear annihilation. In addition to the rational
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INTRODUCTION The closest the world has come to nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba‚ just 90 miles off the coast of the United States. U.S. armed forces were at their highest state of readiness and demanded that the Soviet Union remove these missiles and imposed a naval blockade on Cuba‚ threatening to sink any Soviet ships that approached the island without permitting their cargoes to be inspected. Soviet field commanders
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Cuban Missile crisis is also known as the Caribbean crisis‚ which was the thirteen days confrontation among the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the deployment of American ballistic missile in Turkey and Italy with the subsequent deployment of the Soviet ballistic missile in Cuba. This conflict result as the beginning of the Cold War to grow into the full-scale nuclear war. In Cuban Missile crisis‚ the Soviets had begun to build facilities to deploy medium-range and intermediate-range
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just beginning‚ Russia had cut off West Berlin to make sure that no trade made its way into West Berlin. Although‚ The United States‚ Great Britain‚ and France had decided to help the people that lived in West Berlin by airlifting supplies into West Berlin. The United states‚ Great Britain‚ and France took a stand for the German citizens and the world by standing up to the Communist rule of Russia. While also airlifting supplies to the citizens of West Berlin. The immediate impact of standing up to
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it worse. The presidents that handled an American crisis well are J.F.K. and F.D.R. on numerous occasions. The crises that Kennedy helped the U.S. citizens through were the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crises that Roosevelt helped the U.S. citizens through were World War II and the Great Depression. The crisis Kennedy helped the U.S. citizens through was the Bay of Pigs Invasion which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy organized anti-Castro forces to go invade
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Cuban Missile Crisis Many people feared nuclear war. The Cuban Missile was a tense political battle. The missile’s discovery‚ Kennedy’s response‚ and the deal are in the following paragraphs.(History.com) Soviet missiles were discovered 90 miles off the coast of Florida. It was on October 14‚ 1962‚ a U.S spy plane flew over Cuba‚ and took pictures of military installations. (Cuban Missile Crisis: Helga Schier). They ended up being nuclear soviet missiles. The next day‚ October 15‚ the National
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Cristian Mendoza 04-18-1616 Period 1 . Leading up to The Cuban Missile Crisis The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro and take away his power from Cuba. The invasion completely failed because the american troops were completely outnumbered by Castro’s troops. This event created more conflict between Castro and the U.S‚ enough to then eventually create the Cuban missile crisis. The invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA - sponsored paramilitary group
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film Thirteen Days‚ the controversy of the historic Cuban Missile Crisis is depicted as one of America’s most trying time because for the first time the U.S and Soviet Union were eye to eye in tension. The key players were President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Premier Khrushchev. Soviet nuclear missiles were deployed to Cuba in October 1962. The Soviet Union deployments of missiles were for defensive purposes‚ but the fact that the missiles were deployed close to U.S borders made this an uneasy
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first letter to Kennedy? In the first letter‚ Khrushchev first appealed to Kennedy in a thankful tone. The letter is assumed to be a personal letter from Khrushchev attempting to convince Kennedy to not invade Cuba and end the blockade; in return‚ he would remove the missile sites in Cuba and the Russians would stop shipping weaponries to Cuba. Khrushchev also described communists as peaceful and hard-working people who wanted nothing more than a diplomatic relationship with USA. Robert McNamara once
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1970s‚ mainly because there was a growing fear of a nuclear holocaust especially with the growth in those countries that had nuclear weapons‚ such as USA and USSR. The détente consisted of many events‚ right from the decisions made after the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ to the Helsinki agreement in 1975. In doing so‚ it seemed to ease tensions between the USA and USSR in the 1970s. The United States had an atomic monopoly for only a very brief period; this ended in 1949 with the Soviet development of
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