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Cuban Missile Crisis Lecture # 6

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1 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 1962 Lecture # 6
Objective~ Understand how the world dodged a nuclear war

2 Brinkmanship “Superpowers willingness to go to nuclear war”

3 Cuba led by communist dictator Fidel Castro (1959)
*Helped from the U.S.S.R *Denounced US as evil capitalist empire

4 USSR- led by Krushchev 1962-secretly began to build 42 missile sites in Cuba
*Cuba is only 90 miles from the US

5 United States Response
John F. Kennedy attempted to bring down the communist regime Bay of Pigs Invasion U.S. Imposed a Trade Embargo Still in Effect Today

6 Kennedy demanded Soviets to take nukes out of Cuba
*Ready to go to war (Nuclear) Soviets took down nukes “Kennedy & Khruschev both knew that once blood was spilled, it would be very hard to keep any crisis under control”

7 Aftermath Castro completely dependent on the USSR
1991 USSR collapses=problems for Cuba

8 Vocabulary~ Due Domino Theory Mao Zedong Great Leap Forward
Cuban missile crisis Fidel Castro Ho Chi Minh 38th parallel Nikita Khrushchev


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