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    Who was to blame for the Cuban missile crisis? The U.S had part of this crisis as they overreacted to the fact that the U.S.S.R was importing missiles into Cuba. They made Cuba tense because they tried to invade Cuba twice. The Cubans needed and help and the U.S.S.R were there to help. If the U.S didn’t try to invade Cuba then it wouldn’t cause so much tension thus the crisis not happening. Also if they haven’t set up a base in Turkey then this wouldn’t have led the Russians to put missiles in

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    missiles. Luckily‚ an agreement was later made and the missiles were taken out of Cuba with no harm done. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen day period where the people of the United States‚ Cuba‚ the Soviet Union‚ and the rest of the world

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is undeniably a major confrontation of the Cold War. Lasting for 13 days it is arguably the pinnacle of the Cold War. This crisis was a decisive factor in the United States’ (US) decision process of whether to engage in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (USSR). However the essential fault of both state leaders (J. Kennedy and N. Khrushchev) which created the inevitable crisis was miscommunication. Today we recognise actions taken by both states during the crisis

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    From 1959 to 1962‚ the island of Cuba changed from being America’s playground to the Soviet’s front line. Post Cuban revolution‚ a threat was seen in the eyes of America. Ninety miles off the coast of Florida was an island whose new set of ideals and leaders could destroy everything that 50’s America had created. This change in regime would shock the entire world and change the fate of the Cold War indefinitely. Prior to these events‚ America had used Cuba as a source of labor‚ new land for investments

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    On October 16th‚ 1962‚ both the United States and the Soviet Union partook in a thirteen-day impasse concerning the construction of nuclear missile sites located in Cuba‚ merely 90 miles away from the coast of Florida‚ known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Realizing exactly how close this installation was‚ President Kennedy and the Executive Community‚ a group of fifteen members meant to advise the president and commonly recognized as Excomm‚ convened for the next twelve days in hopes to solve the dilemma

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    military bases in Cuba‚ the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and granted the U.S. concessions to the best agricultural lands‚ resources and mines‚ and public utilities. Castro was infuriated by the U.S. exploitation of the Cuban economy because he noticed that while American corporations grow rich the Cuban people live without land to grow crops on‚ live in poverty‚ suffer unemployment rates‚ and pay high rents and utilities. In order to better the Cuban people’s lives Castro realized that he needed

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    Kennedy had planned to take out the American missiles in any event. This was the version of events depicted in the first published account of the RFK-Dobrynin meeting by one of the participants‚ in Robert F. Kennedy’s Thirteen Days: A Memoir at the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ posthumously published in 1969‚ a year after he was assassinated while seeking the Democratic nomination for president. While Thirteen Days depicted RFK as rejecting any firm agreement to withdraw the Jupiters‚ this was also the first

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    The Realist Perspective on the Cuban Missile Crisis In October of 1962‚ the United States and the Soviet Union reached a near-nuclear experience when in a short fourteen days; Russia was caught building nuclear missile bases in Cuba. With the Second World War just barely in the past‚ the United States was still on their toes making sure they were in the clear. When they sent the U-2 spy plane to monitor Cuba they found missile bases that were armed and ready to wipe out the western hemisphere

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    Key considerations are the points at which the Soviet Union interests conflicted with Cuban foreign policy initiatives and what enforcement measures the Soviet Union could have taken to place Cuba in line with its own intentions. It is important to understand the nature and limits of this Cuban foreign policy autonomy because a clarification of the same allows us to better define conflicts in this era as truly proxy wars or battles that were

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    was the Cuban missile crisis‚ a struggle fought between the world’s two largest superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union‚ which nearly provoked a nuclear catastrophe on both sides from October 16‚ to October 28‚ in 1962. This crisis had been brewing for many years and was sparked by previous issues between the two nations. The United States had been at odds with Communist ideals for many years beginning with the onset of the Cold War. The direct stimulant for the Cuban missile

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