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expansion. They both wanted to spread their beliefs, beyond their borders to gain global dominance.To prevent the spreading of the other beliefs, they threatened each other with nuclear warfare which included one of the biggest examples, the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest point in the war where the two superpowers could use their nuclear warfare in a click of a button causing detrimental damage to human kind which caused huge fear around the world. During the…

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…

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,…

to the opening of diplomatic relations with the island of Cuba.The opening of diplomatic affiliations will intuitively lead to the surge of the economy,Cuban government but not the people because of the new market they’ll receive the American people in tourism,trade & political gain. However, it will not change the way of life of any of the Cuban citizens because…

presidency. More famous for his looks, Irish blood and religion than his short list of successes while in office, Kennedy had a chance at redemption (or eternal humiliation) following the failure of the Bay of Pigs operation. This opportunity came with the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s important to note that the tension wasn’t as broad as the United States vs the USSR, but can be broken down to John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. With cooperation with NATO, the United States placed missiles in…

In 1962 the world was extremely close to a nuclear war, but thanks to one man the horror never happened. The crisis was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union sent four nuclear submarines armed with torpedoes into the seas around Cuba. The future of the world was in doubt. Naturally, the US did not like the dangerous Soviets so close to the US, so President Kennedy decided to set up a blockade around Cuba. He did this by deploying the US Navy, the world’s largest navy. He sent…

The Cuban missile crisis or also better known as the missile scare was one the treacherous occurrences in human history. This nerve-racking event took place in October of 1962 and was a dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. U.S discovered missile plants when a spy plane spotted the site. This caused a for an intense 13 day feud, the Soviet Union and the United States were both anxiously waiting to see which of the two would make the first…

not need to buy sugar of Cuba- and guarantee for intervention of US. On January 1962, General Edward Lansdale described plans to overthrow the Cuban Government in a top-secret report (partially declassified 1989), addressed to President Kennedy and officials involved with Operation…

a great bond from being psychic and using that to communicate with each other, how Cuba had such an impact in their lives even though Pilar had been living in New York since the age of 2 and the similar personalities they both had. In Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia focused on the lives of Celia and her family and from her three children and four grandchildren. Especially focused on the relationship that Celia had with her granddaughter, Pilar. It’s strange to think that from a distance a…

days was supported by the whole Cuban elite, but the changes brought by the Castro led government into the economic and social sector diminished the support from the Catholic Church, a faction of the American establishment, and the Latin American governments.…