Cold war- cuban missile crisis Flashcards
Who overthrew Batisata, and what happened background?
Fidel Castor overthrew Batista with gorilla warfare.
Castro took over: us business, us owned land, close links to USSR.
Discuss the bay of pigs
It happened in 1961, The USA were furious with castro.
US supplied weapons to anti- cuban rebels and to overthrow Castro.
Landed in bay of pigs and had no air support from the US and were met by 20,000 cuban troops.
Humiliated kennedy, strengthened castor’s position
lead to the cuban missile crisis
What did the USSR do?
Shipped nuclear missiles into Cuba
Why did the USSR ship missiles into Cuba?
Cuba is closer to the USA
Strengthens USSR’s position with Cuba
How did kennedy spot the missiles in cuba and date?
The U-2 spy plane, 1962
Talk about what happened?
Air strike would not get rid of all missiles in cuba
1962- kennedy told the US people
U block ships coming into cuba
American military are put on alert
Khrushchev says, will remove them if you do not invade cuba
Kennedy decides to delay an attack on Cuba
kennedy says remove them or we invade
Khrushchev removes them immediately
Explain why kennedy did a blockade instead?
It does not involve conflict
US military bomb squad pressurising him
to give Khrushchev a way of preventing humiliation
Reason for USA won and didn’t win the cold war?
won: Kennedy stood up and they stood down
Kennedy stood up to his own military who wanted to invade
lost: Agreed in secret not to invade
castro remained, still communist
kennedy made plenty of enemies ( cuban exiles)
Reasons for USSR won and didn’t win the cold war?
won: Khrushchev prevented an invasion of cuba
Acted responsibly and as a piece maker
Missiles in turkey removed
lost: USSR lied to world about missiles in cuba
Khrushchev forced to back down
Not allowed to make agreement in public
1964- Khrushchev replaced as leader
What did the USA and the USSR do to stop future war?
Set up a hotline to prevent this crisis from happening again.
