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The Cuban Missile Crisis The Revolution in Cuba was led by Fidel Castro and he was trying to overthrow the cuban government and create a communist government. He upset the United States by building bases in Cuba for medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental United States. In response to this action the United States set up missiles that could strike Moscow with nuclear warheads.
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an invasion under Eisenhower, to attempt to overthrow the Cuban government’s leader, Fidel Castro. The plan failed and left Castro convinced that the Americans would try to take over the Cuba again. After the fail of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Khrushchev wanted to put missiles in Cuba, incase the United States attacked the Soviet Union. Castro approved the plan and In the summer of 1962 the Soviet Union secretly installed the missiles. United States Air Force U-2 plane captured photographic proof of Soviet’s missiles. The United states then set up a brinkmanship, and waited to see if the Soviets would attack. For days the people of the United States feared the Soviets would attack and World War Three would start. The soviet ships ended up backing down and they negotiated. The United States demanded that Soviet bombers be removed from Cuba, and the Soviets would do so if they got assurance that Cuba would not be Invaded. |