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CMC download, US made aware of Soviet missiles in Cuba - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 15 Jupiter missiles placed in Turkey by US in 1959
        
        USSR made aware of NATO missiles in Turkey
        
        When negotiating USSR asks for NATO missiles to be removed from Turkey in return for removing missiles from Cuba
        
        Missiles in Turkey were very close to the USSR and could be fired upon their territory--> US entering the USSR's sphere of interest
        
        Caused by Cuba switching allegiance to the USSR and this also caused the Bay of Pigs
        
        Soviet weapons being placed in Cuba were a consequence of this
        
        6- led to CmC as the cause for USSR missiles being placed in Cuba
- - - - -ideology capitalism vs communism, now the US knew which side Castro was on
        -Was seen as a direct threat to the US as nuclear weapons are in range.
        -The US had to suppress this threat, as it was seen as the USSR planning an attack, thus a crisis occured in aims of removing Cuban power or preventing USSR from
        supplying Cuba.
  - - - The USSR placed missiles in Cuba as a response to US placing them in Turkey as they had to combat the threat
- - - - arguably out of political necessity — as economy went downhill, much of Cuba's middle class left. Cuba experienced a "brain drain"