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Case study 2: the Cuban Missile Crisis,1559-1962 - Coggle Diagram
Case study 2: the Cuban Missile Crisis,1559-1962
background to crisis
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Americans owned most of the businesses, banks, sugar and tobacco plantations and a naval base in Cuba
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at the UN office, Castro talked with USSR representatives which offered him support for his government
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Cold war developments
the arms and technology race would result in Mutually Assured Destruction, neither side wanted to start a nuclear war because it would mean both sides would be destroyed
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the Soviets put the first satellite into space called Sputnik and developed long-range nuclear missiles called ICBMs
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CIA's response
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Eisenhower had been replaced by John F. Kennedy and the defeat was embarrassing for the new president.
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Kennedy's other options
don't react, the USA had the Turkish site and MAD meant it was not probable for a war to start, but it would be a sign of weakness, especially after the Bay of Pigs
the surgical air attack, destroy all missile silos but could kill Soviet engineers and could be attacked with remaining silos
invasion by the US army, remove missiles and communism but Soviets could respond in attack
use diplomacy, Krushchev denied the missiles existed and it might look like a weakness
after the crisis
in August 1963 they signed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty where both promised not to test more weapons, it didn't reduce their stockpile but it did stop the arms race.
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