Cuban Revolution

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S and the Soviet Union started in an intense 13-day political and military fight in October in 1962 over the nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. October 22, 1962, President John. F Kennedy notified citizens about…

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:…

China to communism due to the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War in the 1950s, and also Berlin Crisis in 1961, increased the tension between the anti-communist America and the communist Soviet Union. Unlike some other conflicts during the Cold War, the Cuban missile Crisis in 1962 was not only the direct, intense conflict between America and the Soviet Union, but was also one of the closest moments to a start of a worldwide nuclear war, and it…

Herman Kahn a preeminent futurist once remarked “Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.” Through this quote Kahn portrays an underlying theme of fear of destruction caused by The Cold War. The Cold War was a multi-decade long conflict between the U.S and USSR. To show their superiority both sides showed power through a nuclear arms race. Humanity evoked a tense attitude because of the probability of a nuclear war was…

to more information being released about the crisis. Dr. Sheldon Stern, a JFK Library historian, states that Robert Kennedy manipulated the historical record in order to portray himself and his brother in a better light (33-34) in his 2012 book The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, which delves into the flawed record set by the Kennedy administration. For example, according to Thirteen Days, there was not a chairman to conduct the Excomm meetings, as Robert Kennedy asserts that “Dean Rusk…

Pan Am Flight 299, August 3rd 1970 (Suarez). A man approaches a flight attendant and states that he wants to go to Cuba, he then pulls out a gun and bottle that he says is filled with explosives, and threatens to set them off if he does not go to the cockpit. The Premier of Cuba, Fidel Castro, was waiting when the plane landed at Havana’s airport. The only people to exit the aircraft were Captain Augustus Watkins and the Hijacker. Castro tours the exterior of the plane for around 40 minutes,…

On January 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered a powerful and moving Inaugural Address to thousands of people across the nation. The Cold War, which divided the globe, was a leading topic from the start of the 1960 election. The United States and the Soviet Union alike threatened each other with nuclear weapons as they raced for power. People all over the world feared of intentional as well as accidental mass destruction from those nuclear weapons. President Kennedy knew people were…

Ford Motor Company , and President of World Bank. McNamara reflects back on his life and shares 11 lessons he had learned as he lived and served during one of the most dark times of human history. He aims to show McNamara describes the event of Cuban Missile Crisis to demonstrate how opposing nations can come to an agreement without resorting to a war that could potentially destroy cities and nations. He asserts the importance of showing empathy towards an enemy and states, “ We must try to…

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…

The Cold War is a name that is given to the relationship, which is mainly between the USA and the USSR after World War II. The Cold War was to go against international relationships for years that were causing major issues between the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall, which was held in 1941 to 1991. The Cold War was an important event because it split into two sides that came to conflict with one another. In my opinion, I believe that The Cold War is important to us…