2.2 Cuba Missile Crisis 59-63 Flashcards
What were the consequences of the cuba missile crisis?
- hot line set up in 1963(direct communications)
- test ban tresty signed 1963(forbid testing of nuclear weapons)
- outer space treaty signed in 1967(space not used for military purposes-no nuclear weapons in orbit.
- Nuclear-non-Proliferation treaty 1968 (no sharing nuclear technology to other countries)
- cuba stays communist
- Kennedy rise in popularity
- US take missiles out of a nato ally, Turkey.
- khrushchev critisised by hard line communsists and china
What was the Importance of the cuba missile crisis?
- khrushchev critisised by hard line communist and China-huge unpopularity leads to him getting dismissed in 1964
- tension reduce(treaties)-improves both superpowers econemies.
- period of Detente occur
- hot line set up so it could never happen again.
What happens in oct 16 1962?
Kennedy calls together Excomm
What happens in oct 22 1962?
Kennedy decides not to launch an attack
-instead launches naval blockade.
What happens in oct 24 1962?
Soviots ships reach the blockade and turn around.
What happens in oct 26 1962?
Khrushchev sends a telelgram: his offer:
-take missiles out of Cuba of US promise not to invade
What happens in oct 27 1962?
Khrushchev sends a second telegram asking for missiles to be removed from Turkey.
What happened on oct 28 th?
Kennedy ignores the second telgram and agrees to the first.
Although the US did sectretly remove missiles from Turkey.
What does birkmanship mean?
Disagreements to the point where you are prepared to go to war.
Who was leader of the US during the cuban revolution?
Eisenhower
Why was the cuban revolution such a problem for the us?
- US buisnesses had heavily invested in Cuba
- a lot of the land was owned by americans
- castro did not want Cuba’s econemy under control this caused tension
- castro nationalised all Cuban land in 1959
Why were the US concerned by Castro’s Cuba?
- they wanted a US frendly goverment in control
- they were worried a communist country would be on their border-within missile range and a bad propoganda image.
- did not want a communist ally close to US territory.
What was the bay of pigs and why was this method chosen?
- kennedy wanted to get rid of Castro to make his image look good after being elected-he gave his support to a CIA plan before he was elelcted.
- cuban exiles would be trained and launch an invasion into Cuba-they did not send any US troops or air forces because the attack would look like a counter revolution-the US could claim they were not invloved.
- they did not expect the ppl to side with Castro
What were the effects of the bay of pigs for the US?
They looked hypocritical as they had accused the soiviots for building a empire in Europe, they were doing the same thing. (Supporting an armed uprising to gain US infulance in a another country.)
Propoganda for communism as the ppl of Cuba chose communism and did not help the ‘US’ invaders.
Led to a better soviot-Cuba relationship.
Castro for the forst time delclares he is a communist.
Castro askes Kshrushchev for weapons-Khrushchev publicly announces this in 61
2 consequences plan
P1: treaties
P2: Leadership popularity
