Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 1

How did the USSR build missiles in Cuba?

Answer 1

Spread communism
-World wide permanent revolution

Test USA

• Gain upper hand in Cold War
• Bargain with USA (Turkey)

Protect Cuba

• Fellow communists
• Trade partners
• Bay of Pigs

Good strategic position

• IRBMs
• MRBMs
• Deterrence

Lack of respect for Kennedy

• Lack of respect tests Kennedy
• JFK VS Khrushchev
• Berlin Wall Crisis, 1961
• Khrushchev being dismissive

Close ‘missile gap’

• Fear of falling behind
• Threatened
• US missiles in Turkey and Western Europe