Thirteen Days: A Memoir Of The Cuban Missile Crisis

Thirteen Days A Memoir of The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of pure tension and fear, which wouldn 't have been as terrifying if both sides dropped their pride. The memoir “Thirteen Days” explains this perfectly. First we have to explain what the Cuban missile crisis was. The Cuban Missile Crisis was during the cold war, and the reason for the cold war is because Russia thought they won World War II, and we thought the same so both side were showing off how superior each one is. ;how much better one is compared to the other they did this by seeing who could build bigger better things. It was just seeing who can be superior… The U.S or the U.S.S.R. All this led to the space race, the CIA, NATO, The Iron Curtain, and the cherry …show more content…
from Europe.” (Kennedy, 41) The U.S and The OAS was obsessed with making the world turn against The Soviet Union. The Cuban Missile Crisis is when The Soviets started building nuclear missile launching cites in Cuba which created a big scare for the U.S this was also after the U.S made Nuclear cites in Italy, and Turkey, most likely the reason why The Soviets wanted to place missile launching sites in Cuba. Neither the US or USSR wanted to launch in to war or become the reason for humanities demise, but then neither side wanted to show weakness or show any kinks their armor so to speak. The Memoir “Thirteen Days” was written by Robert F. Kennedy. The Purpose of “Thirteen Days” was to inform the people of the actual amount of tension that there was between The Soviet Union and The United states, and how to show how close we actual were to nuclear war, and the end of humanity. During this time many agencies were created such as the CIA the OAS and the AID the Peace Corps. The CIA was an created because the U.S distrusted their citizens and thought that some of them were spy’s for The Soviet Union which is what we now call the red scare. The OAS is “Organization Of the American States” this