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The Cuban Missile Crisis
Reasons that drew American-Cuban
Tensions into the Cold War
Significance of Cuba to
the USA
Strategic Importance of the
Caribbean Islands
-> Cuba is the LARGEST of the Caribbean islands (In East India)
-> Although it was not part of US territory, but with its CLOSE geographical proximity to the USA, it was extremely important to the SECURITY of the USA
-> Monroe Doctrine (December 1823):
WARN Europeans to BACK OFF Latin America, legitimize US sphere of influence (politically & economically)
-> Roosevelt Corollary (1904):
Gave USA the right of UNILATERAL (affects only one side) MILITARY intervention in Latin America (USA would have the right to intervene with affairs in Latin America)
-> Independence against Spain (1898):
~ The American intervention on side of Cuba in the Cuban War during the war in Spain.
~ A pro-US Cuban government was set up after Spain was DEFEATED and Cuba was NOT ALLOWED to make alliances without US approval
Safeguarding economic interests
in Cuba
Tensions between the USA
and Cuba
American political intervention
in Cuba
The Cuban Revolution
Castro's new policies that
threatened American investments
in Cuba
Castro's friendship with
Khrushchev
Escalating tensions due to
American retaliation against Cuba
Resolution and aftermath of the
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet installation of missiles
in Cuba
Soviet and Cuban considerations
American discovery of the
missile deployment
Escalation of tensions during the
Cuban Missile Crisis
American response to the missiles
in Cuba
Kennedy's strategy of
brinkmanship
Immediate response of the Soviet
Union and Cuba to the blockade
Course of the resolution
of the crisis
Khrushchev's first appeal
for peace
Khrushchev's second appeal
for peace
Impact of U-2 spy plan
incident
Khrushchev accepts Kennedy's
deal
Khrushchev removes the rest
of the nuclear missiles from Cuba
Reasons why the USA and
the Soviet Union went to the brink
of nuclear war over Cuba
Factors leading to the resolution
of the crisis
Cooperation between Kennedy
and Khrushchev
Public and international opinion
Aftermath of the crisis
Implications for individual
parties
USA
Soviet Union
Cuba
Establishment of the
Moscow-Washington Hot Line
First steps towards
nuclear disarmament