Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 1

What were the events that led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis that contributed to the sense of crisis and inevitable nuclear confrontation ?

Answer 1

1958 Taiwan Straights Crisis
The Berlin Wall
The Cuban Revolution

Question 2

What event triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the thirteen days of October ?

Answer 2

Khrushchev, claiming to only supply Cuba with defensive weapons, moved into the country as a Soviet Missile base

Question 3

How did Castro and most Cubans look at the Cuban Missile Crisis and how was this different form the American point of view ?

Question 4

Why did Krushchev decide to bring nuclear weapons to Cuba ?

Question 5

How did medium range Soviet nuclear missiles shift the strategic balance of the world and threaten the US ?

Question 6

As the USA and the USSR were moving to war, what events allowed them to step back from the brink ?

Question 7

How did JFK and Krushchev, who had both earlier acted so rashly, exercise wisdom and restraint in resolving the immediate crisis ?

Question 8

Through what settlement did both sides manage to settle the Cuban dispute bringing the crisis to an end ?

Question 9

How did resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis transform the Cold War struggle ?