Cuban Missile Crisis Flashcards
What were the events that led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis that contributed to the sense of crisis and inevitable nuclear confrontation ?
1958 Taiwan Straights Crisis
The Berlin Wall
The Cuban Revolution
What event triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis, or the thirteen days of October ?
Khrushchev, claiming to only supply Cuba with defensive weapons, moved into the country as a Soviet Missile base
How did Castro and most Cubans look at the Cuban Missile Crisis and how was this different form the American point of view ?
Why did Krushchev decide to bring nuclear weapons to Cuba ?
How did medium range Soviet nuclear missiles shift the strategic balance of the world and threaten the US ?
As the USA and the USSR were moving to war, what events allowed them to step back from the brink ?
How did JFK and Krushchev, who had both earlier acted so rashly, exercise wisdom and restraint in resolving the immediate crisis ?
Through what settlement did both sides manage to settle the Cuban dispute bringing the crisis to an end ?
How did resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis transform the Cold War struggle ?