Missile crisis

Missiles in Cuba Build Tensions Between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. It was almost the start of a nuclear war, or what would be World War III. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major event during the Cold War. It brought the citizens of the U.S. to the edge of their seats because, like the flip of a switch, their world could be turned upside down. John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were fighting for their beliefs and the safety of their own country. It was once said that this event is when, “the Cold

Thirteen days in October of 1962 changed the course of the World in the nuclear age forever. The Cuban Missile Crisis represents the closest brink of mutual nuclear destruction the World has ever been close to reaching. The leadership in place throughout the crisis is critical to the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Three men dominated the nations involved in the crisis and captivated citizens of all corners of the world. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy of the United States, Soviet Premier Nikita

a nerve-racking time in 1962. What happened in 1962 you may ask? The Cuban Missile Crisis. Just as the year was coming to an end an American spy plane took pictures of missiles in an island 103 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba. Can theorize who put the missiles there? The USSR put them there because Cuba was a neighboring communist country to the US, so if the US were to do something the USSR could shoot the missiles. Mind you, these weapons are nuclear and as we should all know that is never

States' and Russia's traumatic Cuban Missile Crisis. First, we will review the actions the United States and Russia took that enable the Cuban Missile Crisis to come to fruition. Second, we will highlight the actions that each nation took during the heighten alert state to protect each country's interest. Next, the international negotiations that ultimately led to the movement of each country's missiles and de-escalation of the situation. Now, the Cuban Missile Crisis is an event that showcases how superpower

arms race. The Soviet Union had limited range missiles that were only capable of being launched against Europe, but the United States possessed missiles that were capable of striking anywhere within the entire Soviet Union. As it is often said, when it comes to national security, leaders sometimes make irrational decisions. In an effort to restore the balance of power Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev devised the idea of placing intermediate-range missiles in Cuba (14 days in October). This deployment

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

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy said, “It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization,” (Nuclear Ban Test Treaty). This quote directly describes the overall idea of Cuban Missile Crisis. The “Thirteen Days” of the Cuban Missile Crisis refer to the closest point where the Soviet Union and the United States came to nuclear war. For thirteen days both nations waited in fear, for news if there was

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Missile Scare, was a 2 week period in October of 1962 that was a result of increasing tensions amongst the United States and the Soviet Union. Tension between the US and the USSR is not new and is known as the Cold War, often stated to be a period between 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Intelligence gathered over the span of couple months all seemed to lead to the common conclusion that the Soviet’s are installing offensive nuclear

Identification and Evaluation of Sources “How real was the threat of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis?” That is to say would either country actually have turned the key and pushed the button, sinking the world into nuclear warfare or was the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction too great to have allowed for such catastrophe to occur? All of the sources used were found on the internet but were all found from highly reputable sources. One online source came from the Library of Congress’s

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