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Cifuentes_ColdWar (Cold War Crisis (Cuban Missle Crisis (1962) (USSR…

- - - - The practice of brinkmanship pushed the US towards nuclear war, but did not plan to enter a nuclear war.
      - Kennedy issues a blockade on Cuba instead of pursing diplomatic or extreme actions.
      - The removal of missles in Cuba was accompanied by the removal of US missles in Turkey
    - - Attempts to gain an advantage by placing missles in Cuba.
      - Attempts to block people from leaving to West Germany from East Berlin by establishing a dividing wall.
      - First to offer a negotiatio to remove Turkish missles
    - - Brezhnev, of the USSR, willing to cooperate with China and USSR to avoid isolation and get out of economic issues
      - Hesitant to improve human rights as demanded by the SALT.
      - Desire to be stable, rather than expand sphere of influence
  - - - The USSR brings missles into Cuba, which can reach the United States
      - The US imposes a blockade on the arrival of missles to Cuba, this leads to negotiations between Kennedy and Krushchev. The results are removal of Cuban and Turkish missles.
    - - North Korea, a communist state funded by the USSR, clashes with the capitalist state, South Korea, assisted by the US.
      - The Korean War resulted in the split of Korea into North and South Korea.
- - - - USSR wants to cooperate due to economy, as well as avoid being isolated by USSR and US
  - - - Capitalism and Communist ideologies
        
        US suggests isolating Communist states
        
        US support for states against communism
    - - US considers attacks on capitalism an attack on the US
      - Chinese and Soviet Relations lessen in quality after mass death by Five Year Plans
    - - Desire for China, USSR and US to limit arms and create other policies.
        
        SALT 1
        
        Limit arms, agree to cooperate, improve human rights, among all nations
        
        USSR hesitant to improve human rights
        
        SALT II
        
        Limitations on MIRV's, SALT II is never ratified
      - Decline of Detente
        
        Watergate Scandal
        
        Soviets support middle eastern counties against Israel, does not show human rights improvements.