Cuban Missile Crisis

Russian backing. Fidel Castro allowed the USSR to deploy nuclear missiles on the island, which caused the U.S. to terminate diplomatic relations with Cuba in January of 1961. By April of the same year, a group of Cuban exiles (backed by the US) invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in a failed attempt to trigger an anti-Castro rebellion. In June, President Khrushchev and President Kennedy hold summit talks in Vienna regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over a year later…

In order to truly get a grasp of this crisis, we need to look at the individual level of analysis. Sure, we could argue that the state level is the best way to explain it by talking about the type of government that each side had, their historical background, or even even talk about public opinion. Or we could talk about the two strategies that the US proposed; destroy the missiles or create a blockade. Or even the systemic level of analysis by talking about the balance of power and hegemonic…

over Eastern Europe and then threatening to take over Berlin. Hostility between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had sprouted that led them to battle it out in the Cold War, which almost became known as the Hot War. This was about to occur because of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Steps leading up to this revolution would be created by the animosity between the U.S. toward the U.S.S.R.…

November 22, 1963. The first impact that John F kennedy made was leading the United States Of America through the cuban missile crisis. The first thing he did was warn the people of the United States. He told the military to put a naval blockade around Cuba. He also made it clear to put U.S. military forces if necessary. He successfully led the United States out of the Cuban missile Crisis. The next impact John F Kennedy made was the bay of pigs invasion. He made Fidel Castro leave the…

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis As the title states, the book is a memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis through the lense of the White House. In span of 13 days, the world faced one of the most critical event in history. The stakes were nuclear war, which could have obliterated much of the life on earth from nuclear fallout. In a nutshell, after World War II, the two superpowers in the world were, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Without…

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…

as the president of the United States who saved the entire world from destruction, while thermonuclear war was imminent during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This anti-communist, anti-Soviet president led the United States through a period of superiority against the Soviet Union after the president influenced Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to remove Soviet nuclear missiles situated on the island of Cuba located merely 90 miles off the coast of Florida. For generations, President Kennedy was hailed…

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…

“The brink of the Nuclear Holocaust” The movie was obviously about the Cuban missile crisis and I would say it was pretty intense that it gives you chills and makes your heart race. Being the head of the state, you’re mostly in control of every action that the government has to undertake and if you do it wrong you would most likely to be blamed by the whole population and you would no longer have the support of people. On a 13-day political and military standoff between the United States…

The arms race that occurred led to an increased fear across the globe of nuclear warfare between the two large superpowers of the time, the US and the Soviet Union. In 1961 the Soviet Union had been developing missile bases in Cuba merely 94 miles from Florida. This reaffirmed a suspicion that Fidel Castro had aligned Cuba with the Soviet Union. This suspicion had began as early as when Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista regime in 1959, despite the fact that the…