One of the sources that I used is a book titled In the Name of Democracy by Thomas Carothers. It is an examination of U.S. policy in Latin America during the Reagan era. Carothers provides information on U.S. involvement using interviews with United States officials and his own perspective as a former State Department lawyer. Also, the book provides information on the effects of removing the communist influence. This source is created so the information about the effects of the U.S policy in Latin America could be shared to the public. It is intended to be for the people who wanted to know more about U.S involvements in the Latin Americans. This source contributes to my study by providing …show more content…
The Soviet Union agreed to Cuba’s request to ship nuclear missiles to them when the US started placing missiles in Turkey and Italy. Cuba requested the missiles because the Bay of Pigs incident, which was an American invasion in Cuba. Cuba was worried that there would be another attack. By May 1962, Cuba and the Soviet Union had agreed to secretly build missile installations and transport missiles to Cuba. The Americans figured out the missile plot because they sent U2 spy planes to fly over Cuba and they spotted the missiles. The planes photographed the missile installations and sent the photos to President Kennedy on October 16, 1962. U.S.A looked at this with unease and decided to act to prevent this from happening. President Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade to prevent missile transporters from coming to Cuba. Kennedy then notified the American citizens about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision on the blockade and made it clear that the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary. The blockade angered the Soviets who believed this act would lead to a nuclear war. The Soviets ignored the blockade, which caused the situation to become a DEFCON two which means that they were close to a nuclear war and that the military is ready to attack in 6 hours. Then, realizing the danger, the Soviets and the Americans had secret negotiations to resolve the situation and announced that they have agreed that the Soviets would take away the missiles in exchange for a promise from the USA not to invade Cuba. The following day, USSR secretly made another deal that they would dismantle the missiles in Cuba if the Americans removed their missile installations in Turkey, which ended the Cuban missile crises on October