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The Mishandling of the Cuban Missile Crisis Some of the most nerve-racking moments in United States history happened during the Cold War. Every day, people worried that the Soviet Union was about to launch a full-scale nuclear attack on them. These types of worries peaked in the early 1960s because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Castro’s growing relationship with Khrushchev started to really instill fear into not only the American public, but to the entire world as a whole. Not only was the…

The Cold War at times threatened to become a direct confrontation between the superpowers. Looking back, a victory in terms of the Cuban Missile Crisis alludes to achieving foreign policy goals, and although both succeeded in the short term, Khrushchev was the ultimate victor in the long run. While Khrushchev may have exaggerated his statement in calling the Cuban Missile Crisis a ‘victory’ as he had backed down and removed…

I. Introduction : the underlying factors that led to the crisis The Cuban missile crisis, was the instance known to all, where the world was the closest to a nuclear warfare between 2 of the most powerful countries at the time. This crisis involved 2 superpowers, the United States, The Soviet Union and the Island of Cuba. Cuba is a small island that is located 160 km from the coast of Florida (USA), it was a US ally that had US businesses and a US military base in Guantanamo. A revolution that…

In Essence of decision, Graham Allison leverages the incredible events of the Cuban missile crisis to challenge the way people think about foreign and military affairs. He compares the application of three analytical models to showcase the limitations of the rational actor model, arguing that the crisis could be better understood when the organizational behavior and government politics model are applied as well. Treating these models as lenses, Allison provides the reader with both an in-depth…

lessons learned by the Cuban Missile Crisis. This crisis does bring about many questions that could have made the crisis turn into war at any point. If Cuba had more control could they have enacted a nuclear war that would have had dire consequences? If the Soviets had gotten away with putting nuclear weapons in Cuba without the United States knowing, what would they have really used them for? Giving these questions, “[one] pattern is the long-standing assertion that the Cuban missile crisis was…

By Lizabel Mónica Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery. WHO IS…

The Cuban Missile Crisis as a Rhetorical Situation The Cuban missile crisis marks a time in history when the spread of nuclear weapons was on the forefront of foreign and domestic policy concerns. On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy made an historic speech that addressed the growing concerns of nuclear weapons and Soviet Union aggression. Kennedy’s speech and the actions taken in response, continue to define the United States relationship with Cuba. Kennedy’s speech applies well to Bitzer’s…

all humans, and wildlife ceasing to exit. Every edible crop, or source of drinking water would be completely contaminated. This would have been the results of our Earth if Premier Kruschchev, and President Kennedy did not come into an agreement. The Cuban missile crisis is an event that would have led to possible human extinction, due to high tension between the U.S., and Russia and is important to us today because it illustrates the sometimes pivotal role of personality in politics, in…

This historical study will define the mutually antagonistic foreign policies of the United States government and the Soviet Union that caused the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962. The issue of nuclear missile weaponry was major factor that created political and strategic conflict between the Soviet Union and the American government. Initially, Khrushchev had illegally demanded that the United States give the Soviet Union West Berlin as part of a deal on the partitioning of Germany through…

The Cuban missile crisis started on October 15, 1962. Data from a US spy plane was being reviewed and analyzed, and it was discovered that there was Soviet Union missile silos being built in Cuba. Days later on October 22 John F. Kennedy, the presiding president at the time, delivered a speech over national television and radio to address the situation. Kennedy announced in his speech that he was ordering a naval quarantine of Cuba to prevent soviet ships from transporting any more missiles or…