Cuba and the Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis can be examined in a 3 different parts. One, the form of communications between the United States and the Soviets, who did both countries go about communicating with one another? Maybe the communications between the two were not as clear or if there were constant communications between the countries the crisis would never have occurred. Second, eventually communications between the two countries stopped and none reached out to begin negotiations until it was too late (but eventually worked out). At that point, the Soviets had shipped enough missiles into Cuba and had enough to completely make it functional.
When the United States found out about the missiles, they decided to take action. …show more content…
Third, Kennedy stated if any missiles were launched against the United States or any other country, the Soviet Union would be held responsible and America would be forced to retaliate. Fourth, Kennedy set out a message to the UN about the Soviet missiles in Cuba and that an emergency meeting should be held to force the Soviets to immediately remove the missiles. And lastly, Kennedy urged Khrushchev to stop this unnecessary action, because his actions are looked upon as a threat to world peace and that the two countries should be on better terms with one …show more content…
One of the conditions which Khrushchev made was that the president and the United States government should not invade Cuba and by doing so the soviet would make sure any ship going into Cuba would not care any weapons into Cuba. Another proposal was that the United States should remove the missiles they set up in turkey and by doing so the soviets would remove the missiles set up in Cuba. Both countries would benefit from this proposal because the missiles in turkey are right next to Russia and the missiles in Cuba are 90 miles from the United States which means if war broke out both would suffer serious consequences and loses. In 1962 Kennedy did consider removing the missiles from turkey and in the end he accepted Khrushchev’s offer and both the United States and soviet union took down their missiles. The reason as to why the soviets set up the missiles in Cuba was not really
The Cuban missile crisis can be examined in a 3 different parts. One, the form of communications between the United States and the Soviets, who did both countries go about communicating with one another? Maybe the communications between the two were not as clear or if there were constant communications between the countries the crisis would never have occurred. Second, eventually communications between the two countries stopped and none reached out to begin negotiations until it was too late (but eventually worked out). At that point, the Soviets had shipped enough missiles into Cuba and had enough to completely make it functional.
When the United States found out about the missiles, they decided to take action. …show more content…
Third, Kennedy stated if any missiles were launched against the United States or any other country, the Soviet Union would be held responsible and America would be forced to retaliate. Fourth, Kennedy set out a message to the UN about the Soviet missiles in Cuba and that an emergency meeting should be held to force the Soviets to immediately remove the missiles. And lastly, Kennedy urged Khrushchev to stop this unnecessary action, because his actions are looked upon as a threat to world peace and that the two countries should be on better terms with one …show more content…
One of the conditions which Khrushchev made was that the president and the United States government should not invade Cuba and by doing so the soviet would make sure any ship going into Cuba would not care any weapons into Cuba. Another proposal was that the United States should remove the missiles they set up in turkey and by doing so the soviets would remove the missiles set up in Cuba. Both countries would benefit from this proposal because the missiles in turkey are right next to Russia and the missiles in Cuba are 90 miles from the United States which means if war broke out both would suffer serious consequences and loses. In 1962 Kennedy did consider removing the missiles from turkey and in the end he accepted Khrushchev’s offer and both the United States and soviet union took down their missiles. The reason as to why the soviets set up the missiles in Cuba was not really