Cuban American

4.2 John F. Kennedy – In movie and in real life “Thirteen Days” is a fictional dramatized movie, which follows the events during the Cuban Missile Crisis chronologically. The movie follows the presidential advisor Kenny O’Donnell and the Kennedy brothers as well as the meetings with the ExCom members. When Kennedy was elected president in 1960 and began his presidency in 1961, he was a popular man. Being the youngest president he had a certain charisma, which people loved. When Kennedy married…

One of the most intense parts of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The conflict of the Cuban Missile Crisis happened when Fidel Castro overthrew the previous leader, Fulgencio Batista. The book “John F. Kennedy Vs. Nikita Khrushchev” by Ellis Roxburgh states, "In 1959, Fidel Castro led a rebellion on the island to overthrow the corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista. The United States had supported Batista and had many business interests in Cuba.” The U.S. approved of the previous leader,…

One significant Cold War event of the 1960s included the Cuban Missile Crisis. Broadly, this crisis was a thirteen day conflict in 1962 involving the United States and the Soviet Union regarding the installment of Soviet airstrike missiles in Cuba. This situation was globally televised and was the nearest the Cold War had ever come to a nuclear war. Tension between superpowers, Fidel Castro, and the Bay of Pigs Invasion led this event to unfold as it did and the event took the Western bloc in an…

There are many possible reasons for why the USSR chose to place their nuclear weapons in Cuba whether it be to protect them or us them. The Cubans happily accepted the soviet military onto their island even when it drew them deeper into a war with the US. Both the Cuban leader Castro and Khrushchev said different things as to why they had missiles in Cuba. They main reason as to why the soviets placed was to bargain with USA. They believed that Kennedy was a weak and novice leader. Khrushchev…

communism spreading and the possibility of nuclear warfare. The Cold War and The Cuban Missile Crisis became the center of the political issues that captured America’s fears. The focus of these two ideals became adapted, in two separate films: Three Presidents Go To War, and the satire black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I stopped Worrying and Loved the Bomb. Within the films, one will discover how close Americans came to an all out nuclear war, how Strangelove represented the elements within…

ground in restoring relations. Having been at odds since 1961, many politicians believed the two countries would not restore ties any time soon. The tumultuous U.S.-Cuba relationship is rooted in the Cold War. Following the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. levied an economic and diplomatic embargo which would last for the next 54 years. As recently as December 2014, the United States and Cuba agreed to restore full diplomatic relations. While loosening restriction may…

When all the pieces are together it is fairly simple to tell what the overall picture is, but when you take several pieces away it becomes a guessing game where different people can interpret the picture different ways. This can be the case with the Cuban Missile Crisis, or October Crisis, or even Caribbean Crisis depending on which country you derive your information from. The past statement…

Question 1 · The Cold War is categorized as the rise of ideologies and the constant changes in power; a prime example is seen post the Cuban Revolution of 1945. Cuba’s Revolution created significant political and “economical struggles due to the dependence of American resources, for instance, sugar” (Robert 657). Prior to the Cuban Revolution, the United States and Cuba coincided with one another mainly because Cuba wanted to introduce the idea of democracy to Latin America; soon…

Kennedy sent a group of Cuban exiles to Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. This event was referred to as the Bay of Pigs and was a failure as the Cuban army defeated the exiles in less than three days. Less than a year after Bay of Pigs, JFK announced an embargo on Cuba that restricted trade and travel. This embargo completely ravaged Cuba’s economy. “The embargo [resulted] in a loss of approximately $1.126 trillion over the next fifty years, according to Cuban government estimates” ("Timeline:…

In the fog amid the Cuban Missile Crisis or also known as the October Crisis, overseers of the Soviet Union and the United States occupied with an on edge, 13 day political and military in October 1962, over the establishment of atomic equipped soviet rockets on Cuba which is only 90 miles from the United States shores. On October 22, 1962 President John Kennedy advised Americans about the nearness of the rockets, he disclosed his choice to order a maritime barricade around Cuba which he made it…