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Cold_War_Saetia_Kuehn (Cuban Missile Crisis vs. 1st Berlin Crisis (Causes,…

- - - - Allowed for Bay of Pigs invasion because he was told that Cuban revolutionaries would aid the American troops against Castro and start a revolution against communism. However, Kennedy limited the amount of troops and aircraft which could have ultimately been the cause of the mission's failure. The Bay of Pigs invasion increased the tension between the 2 superpowers
      - Increased the number of military advisers in Vietnam.
      - Claimed that the U-2 spy jet was not a spy but was lost and accidentally flew into Soviet territory. This lie created more tension
    - - Khrushchev referred to the U-2 incident to the Supreme Soviet as an act of American aggression. This incident cancelled the possibility of the 2 superpowers meeting is Paris at a summit meeting or any other time soon.
      - Khrushchev´s public global justification for allowing missiles in Cuba was that the missiles were in response to the American Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. The sneaking in of these missiles in Cuba sparked widespread fear in the U.S. in what is known here as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Additionally, the missiles gave the USSR some power/influence.
      - Khrushchev preferred to limit involvement of the USSR in the Vietnam War while the U.S.A. stayed on the soil and in the skies of Vietnam for almost 20 years, from 1955 to 1973. This lack of Soviet involvement resulted in less tension between the nations as the 2 nations were much less likely to encounter each other in combat with less involvement from 1 side.
  - - - Korea: The People´s Republic of China sent hundreds of thousands of troops, aided by the Soviet Union, to push the UN troops away from the Yalu river, near China.
      - Vietnam: No Chinese boots on the ground but the Chinese Communist Party provided arms, military training, and supplies to help Communist North defeat Capitalist South Vietnam
    - - Korea was split and is to this day split between communist and capitalist because an armistice was signed between North and South Korea (they are still technically at war). The Vietnam War resulted in communist victory after U.S withdrew and South Vietnam fell to the communist-run Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1975, the current government of a united Vietnam.
      - In Korea, 5 million people, 10% of the pre-war population, were killed. In Vietnam. In Vietnam, 1.3 million people died.
    - - After Japanese occupation in WW2, Korea was split at the 38th parallel between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Anyone above the 38th parallel would be subject to communist dictatorship under Kim Il-sung, appointed by the Soviets, while everyone below the border would be subject to capitalist dictatorship.
- - - - Communism
        
        The Soviet Union during this time was gathering much of the East and Central European nations as Satellite States to which they justified with the massive amount of casualties in the war. in which they disrupt elections to make them favor of communist leaders much to the other nations disapproval.
      - Maoism
        
        Mao during this time was beggining to step into power.
      - Capitalism
        
        The United States at this time was fiercely against the ideals of communism and wanted to stop its spread in Europe
    - - Soviet Union
        
        With their crippled military and the necessity for more rescources they needed to find a sense of safety.
        Also worth noting was they wanted to cripple German economy
      - US
        
        Feared the growing spread of communism so in turn became more aggressive in terms of policy as shown by the agrrement for containment but also the fear of the soviets obtaining nuclear warheads.
    - - Soviets wanted to replenish their economy after 25 million people had died during the war and to also gain a sort of iron curtain to protect from further assualts
    - - US
        
        The US after world war were left in a very powerful role as they had access to nuclear weapons at the time and were the only country to have them they also did not suffer from economic loss in the war as hard.
      - USSR
        
        The USSR was in a precarious situacion as over 25 million people had died during the war and from this they demanded compensation. the other nations reluctantly obliged and the soviets worked on spreading communism in other states and trying to recover there economy