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Cuban Missile Crisis - Coggle Diagram

- - - - affected the fate of a larger crisis, the Cuban Revolution - armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista
  - - - VERY IMPORTANT:
        
        150km from Florida - proximity to the US affected US security
        
        sustained allies in Latin and South America through Yankee imperialism in first-half of 20th C (economic, pol domination of Western Hemisphere) XXX isolationist
        
        REASONS
        
        [1] GEOPOL, SECURITY: US backyard
        
        20 states in the region, proximity to US (90miles/150km)
        
        exclude foreign intervention in US backyard
        
        number of states in the region = votes in the UN General Assembly
        
        [2] POL: emergence + intensification of CW
        
        created pretext for continuation of American domination over Latin America
        
        [3] ECON: anti-Communism as a facade
        
        to protect and promote US big businesses in Latin America
        
        METHODS that deprived the countries of real independence
        
        POLITICAL
        
        Monroe Doctrine in 1823 whereby the US considered any attempt to extend European influence in the Western hemisphere as a danger to its peace and safety
        
        institutional structures and regional systems to formalise its role as the only major power in this part of the world
        
        POLITICAL-MILITARY
        
        Relied on governments (mil, oligarchies) as the least expensive way to safeguard US' influence
        
        ensured the support of locals when they saw their interests best served by the continued dependence on the US
        
        series of mostly covert interventions and operations to discourage reactionary military dictatorships and topple undesirable governments
        
        [1954] Guatemala 🇬🇹 + [1961] Cuba 🇨🇺 : CIA trained and provided logs support for overthrowing the leftist government
        
        [1965] Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 : Johnson administration landed 20,000 marines (largest) - direct intervention after the assassination of pro-US military dictator, Rafael Trujillo
        
        [1967] Bolivia 🇧🇴 : Ernesto Che Guevara assassinated
        
        [1970/73] Chile 🇨🇱: destabilised socialist government
        
        Argentine-British War + Grenada + in Central America: Reagan provided support for rightwing guerillas
        
        [1947] Rio treaty: collective defense pact
        
        ECONOMIC
        
        provided economic aid
        
        [1948] inter-American Development Bank
        
        [1951[ Organisation of American States (OAS)
        
        [1961] Kennedy's Alliance for Progress provided US$20b over 10 years to combat socio-economic problems and promote structural reforms and econ. dev in the region
    - - SLOW IN ESTABLISHING ITSELF AS A SERIOUS ACTOR - LITTLE INTEREST:
        
        not of immediate significance to Soviet security
        
        part of US SOI --> possible strong response/retaliation from US to any strong Soviet presence
        
        region was skeptical of Moscow and Communism
        
        [1953] USSR had diplomatic relations with only 3 countries (Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay)
        
        hence Soviet pressure in Cuba was primarily the result opportunity in the late 1950s arising from tensions in US-Cuban relations
- - - - USSR's security concern
        
        only 150 miles away from Moscow