Why and how did the Cuban Missile Crisis almost trigger a nuclear war? By: Erin Chua After the second World War‚ the tension between the United States and Soviet Union did not end but only grew‚ and in the late 1940’s the build up tension started the Cold War. Unlike other wars‚ such as the Vietnam War where the Northern Vietnamese and the Southern Vietnamese were fighting‚ the two main countries‚ the United States and the Soviet Union‚ never went to war against each other. They involved themselves
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Kennedy was informed that the Soviet Union had secret plans to build missile bases in Cuba‚ which is 90 miles south of Florida. Kennedy wanted to take the least dangerous approach to this problem and decided to demand from Russian Premier Nikitas Khrushchev to remove all missile bases and dangerous weapons from Cuba. Kennedy also ordered a naval blockade in Cuba to all Russian ships. In response to this‚ Khrushchev told his troops that if the United States invaded Cuba to launch the missiles. Seven
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goals are accomplished. In attempting to explain how this creates relevant‚ coherent policy‚ Graham Allison develops three models and uses them in the case study of the Cuban Missile Crisis to demonstrate how they apply. In Allison’s explanation of his models and subsequent application of these models to the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ he argues that the Rational Theory model (Model I) is not a sufficient way to explain the formation of foreign policy. He argues that there are too many gaps in Model I
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elected‚ was in office. John F. Kennedy is well known for many things throughout his presidency‚ with one being his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis against the Soviet Union in Cuba. This mark in history ultimately had our country trembling in the fear of a nuclear war that would affect us all. President Kennedy stopped what would have been devastating for the whole world and not just Cuba‚ Russia‚ and the United States. There has always been an arms race among various countries‚ but when a crisis‚ such
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President Kennedy was in this position during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. John F. Kennedy was put in a bad situation during the Cuban Missile Crisis where he had to decide‚ along with all of the Excomm members‚ how to properly remove the missiles from Cuba. Although President Kennedy may have acted inappropriately at certain times‚ he was always sure to make his wrongs into rights. President Kennedy displayed the most effective communication during the Cuban Missile Crisis because he was open-minded
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The Cuban Missile crisis was perhaps the closest the world has gone to the point of all out nuclear war‚ and for 13 days in October the world was watching a dangerous game of ideological brinkmanship. The intensity of the situation was probably best described by Soviet General and Army Chief of Operations‚ Anatoly Gribkov as‚ "nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread ... and we weren’t counting days or hours‚ but minutes." The trigger for the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred when reconnaissance
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To what extent was the Cuban missile crisis a factor in Nikita Khrushchev being deposed as leader of the Soviet Union? 1018-133 HL Contemporary History Word Count: 1978 Table of Contents Criterion A: Plan of Investigation pg. 3 Criterion B: Summary of Evidence pg.4-5 Criterion C: Evaluation of Sources
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‘Berlin Crisis’) was one of the main issues between the USA and USSR‚ and caused a considerable amount of growing tension between the two states. The dispute over Berlin was a continuing issue over who was to occupy Berlin‚ the capital city of Germany. The city was seen as an important area for both states and led to several conflict issues throughout the time period. It could be argued that this issue and the tension caused by this was the primary reason (or‚ the main reason) for the Cuban missile
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How far was the dispute over Berlin 1958-1961 a primary cause of the Cuban missile crisis ? The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is frequently described as the moment the cold war turned hot. Many believe that this thirteen-day period was the closest the world came to nuclear conflict. This essay will focus on the primary causes of the Soviet Union placing missiles on Cuba: closing the missile gap‚ trying to force the issue of Berlin or to protect Cuba. The essay will focus on many individual
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The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. What was at stake in the crisis‚ and how do you assess President Kennedy’s response to Khrushchev’s provocation? Was Kennedy prudent or rash‚ suitably tough or needlessly belligerent? By Jeremy Leung 299722 USA & The World 131-236 The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the closest that humankind had ever become to experiencing a thermonuclear war. In October 1962‚ the world watched perilously‚ as U.S. president John
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