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The forty-five years from the dropping of the atom bombs to the end of the Soviet Union, can be seen as the era of the new conflict between two major states: United States of America (USA) and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). According to Hobsbawm, ‘cold war’ was the constant confrontation of the two super powers which emerged from the Second World War. At that time the entire generation was under constant fear of global nuclear battles. It was widely believed that it could break out at any moment. (Hobsbawm, 1994) The consequences of the ‘power vacuum’ in central Europe, created by the defeat of Germany, gave rise to these two super powers (Dunbabin, 1994). The world was divided into

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? Many people have heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and may have learned about it during school, but they do not know the nitty gritty details of the whole fiasco. The CMC was the first threat of a nuclear world war. The real “crisis” was between the United States and the Soviet Union and not Cuba. Cuba played a relatively small role in the grand scheme of it all and was basically the field on which the two powerhouses played on. The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most tense 13 days that the world has ever known and had the possibility of completely disintegrating the world we know today. In this paper we will learn exactly what happened.

In his article, “The Influence of Nuclear Weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Marc Trachtenberg considers three historical approaches to the role that nuclear arms played during the 1962 conflict: first, the view that nuclear arms played no role at all, with U.S. and Soviet weapons cancelling each other out, second, the interpretation that the risk involved with nuclear warfare heavily influenced policy making, and finally the view that the strategic imbalance of nuclear force, characterized by a substantial American advantage, significantly impacted the outcome of the crisis. In weighing the three interpretations, Trachtenberg dismisses the first in supporting the existence of the second, using a variety of primary sources to identify instances when decision-makers were influenced by the risk of nuclear warfare. The focus of the article, however, is on advancing and complicating the third approach, which Trachtenberg claims is congruous with the second. In this third section, Trachtenberg advances the approach that the imbalance of nuclear capabilities impacted Soviet strategy but not American decision making. Accordingly, Trachtenberg’s article is characterized by two central claims: that risk of nuclear war influenced policy during the Cuban Missile Crisis and that American nuclear superiority disproportionately affected Soviet decision-making.

Imagine that you are John F. Kennedy in 1962, and you find out that your ally, Cuba, has your enemy, Soviet Union, has ICBMS (intermediate- range ballistic missiles) & Ilyushin Il-28 light bombers, that could reach the United States and aimed toward the United States. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. Cuba had the missiles there for like three months before one of the U.S had a spy plane that figured out that Cuba had the Soviets Missiles. For a while, the U.S had Intel that Cuba had the missiles but JFK did not believe that Cuba was betraying them. These missiles were only ninety miles away from Florida the U.S. issued a military blockade to prevent further missiles from reaching Cuba. When all the offensive missiles and light bombers were taken from Cuba the blockade was initially ended on November 21, 1962. Although the Cuban Missile Crisis ruined relations with the United States of America and Cuba, it impacted the blockade between the United States of America and Cuba, the respect for the United States of America, and the Bay of the Pigs.

The event of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. Fifteen years into the cold war, the two superpowers continued the fierce competition to increase their military strength. In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the nuclear arms race. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe, whereas the US missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union. In late April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range missiles in Cuba which would double the Soviet strategic arsenal and provide a real deterrent to a potential U.S. attack against the Soviet Union. The fate of millions

After learning the American history in from 1960s to 1970s, During John F. Kennedy administration, the Cuban missile crisis is attractive for me, but only did because the Cuban missile crisis was a watershed in the Soviet-American relationship, but also the brinkmanship is a special military policy, which was created in the crisis. The Cuban missile crisis also was considered as John F. Kennedy’s finest hour. Since we are living in a world where so many potential and uncertain nuclear deterrence and threats surround us, we still should strengthen our awareness to study the Cuban missile crisis. After I did some researches about this topic, I found that during more than fifty years, the Cuban missile crisis has been one of the most intensely

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was an intense standoff between John F. Kennedy, President of the United States and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. For thirteen extremely unnerving days the President and the people of the United States were hoping peace would come upon the U.S. and the Soviet Union. For the reason that these two countries were on the verge of a nuclear war. The confrontation began when President John F. Kennedy was informed by an American U-2 spy plane that nuclear sites were being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. He then met with his advisors in secret meetings in order to discuss the problem and what strategies were going to be used in order to take care of the missiles in Cuba. “On October 22, he

The Cuban Missile Crisis (CMC) was a 13 day standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States (U.S) regarding nuclear bases being built in Cuba. The politically charged conflict occurred on the October 14th, 1962 and almost resorted in nuclear war. The Crisis remains as an example of one of the most terrifying events to occur within history. It was an extreme threat for those of society, which existed for 13 long and endless days. If the Crisis hadn’t been adverted, countries would be annihilated and it would have caused unthinkable damage due to the use of the nuclear weapons by both the United States and the Soviet Union. The conflict could have potentially created history in the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union, as well as in the history of relations between the United States and Cuba. The struggle with the United States and Cuba contributed to the pre-existing and increasing pressure between the U.S. and the Soviet’s. Each country was struggling to solidify its power as not just a superpower, but the biggest superpower compared to anyone else in the world. Meaning, it would gain such superficial control and therefore change the world, as many comprehend it today. Thus, as a consequence, one of the most frightening events in the history of the world, even today, arose and politicians still use it in modern times as a prime example to prevent any possible errors that might once again intensify to create an event of such severity.

For 13 days in October 1962, the world was threatened by nuclear war. This event is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. This event was the closest to nuclear war then world has ever gotten since the US dropped the nuclear missiles on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The USSR had been shipping nuclear missiles to Cuba to deter the threat of the nuclear missiles that could hit the USSR that were in Turkey and Italy. Cuba is a repressive communist society just like the USSR, and it was close enough to the US to hit any major city with the nuclear missiles. In order to protect the USSR and Cuba from the acts of aggression from the western world to keep the unequal political system of Capitalism, the USSR wanted to keep communism in the world, they

In order to understand the importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis in American history one must first understand the Cold War drama, Castro’s rise to power, and the American operations that set up the crisis. “The term Cold War refers

The scope of this investigation is to discover the involvement of Fidel Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. First to be analyzed is the relationship of Castro with the Soviet Union and the United States as to identify the significance of Castro’s role in the stages of the Crisis. Castro’s role will then be deduced referring to the early days of the Crisis, the period when a US U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba, and the resolution of the Crisis.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 reflects possibly the most precarious moment in nuclear history. For the first time, the world’s two nuclear super powers, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, were poised to destroy each other in a war of unprecedented proportion. On the brink of what may have escalated into a nuclear war, the leaders of two nations showed courageous restraint and diplomacy to avoid an exchange of brute force and unimaginable desolation. The situation was preempted by the Bay of Pigs, an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba. Castro had gained authority through a rebellion against Fulgencio Batista, the previous Cuban dictator (Bay of Pigs). America was displeased with Castro, mainly because he was a Communist leader so close to American shores, so a plan to depose him was made, without official United States military support.

The Cold War is the name given to the poor relation between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as the USSR. This relation started directly after World War Two, which lasted about forty five years. Cold war is the rivalry of economics, military, and politics between the two superpowers. This rivalry strain led to many major crises, for example the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in 1962 , the crisis consist of the United States having missiles in Turkey . The USSR had ask for the Missiles to be taken away,

This adjustment in narrative is very clear even today, as, despite there being “no evidence that any nuclear weapons or guided missiles are now in Cuba” as of July 1961, months after the Bay of Pigs invasion, some sources still place the blame for the Cuban missile crisis on Cuba, declaring that placing missiles in Cuba “was a direct threat to the United States and broke Khrushchev’s pledge to Kennedy that Soviet Military aid for Castro would be purely defensive.” This seems to be a reoccurring theme in the American narrative of the Cuban missile crisis, that the allowance of Soviet missiles was an act of unprovoked aggression on behalf of Cuba, rather than Khrushchev promising to support for Cuba against “unprovoked aggression” from America.

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is undeniably a major confrontation of the Cold War. Lasting for 13 days it is arguably the pinnacle of the Cold War. This crisis was a decisive factor in the United States’ (US) decision process of whether to engage in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (USSR). However the essential fault of both state leaders (J. Kennedy and N. Khrushchev) which created the inevitable crisis was miscommunication. Today we recognise actions taken by both states during the crisis as consistent with a realist point of view. Realism holds great emphasise on the obstacles enforced by human nature and the non-attendance of an international government. Creating international politics an area focused on power and state-interest.