Cuban+Missiles+Crisis

At the close of WWII, the soviet Union stood ready to install communist government. It also wanted to expand its security zone farther into North Korea, Central Asia, and the Middle East. The U.S. also established a security zone in Western Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Both countries were just trying to secure the place in the world and secure their country from another world war. But it was a threat that each side perceived from the other that allowed both countries to have a mutual fear.The cold war was the most political and diplomatic issue that accrued right after WWII. The two main cold war enemies were The USSR or The Soviet Union against the USA. The Cold War got its name because both countries were afraid to fight each other directly. This was because they both had Nuclear weapons. The Cold was said to have gone on during 1917. When the revolutionary Bolsheviks regime devoted to spreading communism throughout the industrialised world. But the first time the Cold War began to heat up was in the late 1945. When relations between Moscow and Washington began to deteriorate. This deterioration ignited the Early Cold war, and set the stage for the next 40 years

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.

For the United States, the crisis began on October 15, 1962 when reconnaissance photographs revealed Soviet missiles under construction in Cuba.

President John F. Kennedy

Premier Nikita Khrushchev- leader of soviet union at the time

Fidel Castro-Leader of cuba

The next day, kennedy formed EX-COMM a group of his twelve most important advisors to handle the crisis. Made up by Vice President: Lyndon Johnson Secretary of State: Dean Rusk Secretary of Defense: Robert McNamara; Chairman of the JCS: General Maxwell Taylor Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs: McGeorge Bundy Secretary of the Treasury: Douglas Dillon CIA Director: John McCone Attorney General: Robert Kennedy Undersecretary of State: George Ball Special Counsel: Theodore Sorensen Deputy Secretary of Defense: Roswell Gilpatric Soviet Specialist: Llewellyn Thompson

After seven days of guarded and intense debate within the upper echelons of government, Kennedy concluded to impose a naval blockade around cuba and not let any materials to enter or leave cuba. On October 22, Kennedy told the public about the Cuban Missle crisis, and his decision to put up a naval blockade around cuba. Although once the news broke, tensions between the Soviet Union and the US started to grow even more. Kennedy demended that spy planes be sent to gather information on cuba in 2 hour intervals. On october 25, Kennedy decided to move the naval blockade back 500 miles and put America on DEFCON 2 for soviet threat. On october 26, EX-COMM recieved a letter from the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, Stating a proposal. His proposal was that he would remove all Soviet Missiles and miltary personal if the U.S. would promise not to invade Cuba. The proposal seemed legit, but on October 27, a U.S. U-2 plane was shot down over Cuba fueling more tenison. EX-COMM then recieved another letter from Nikita Khrushchev demanding the removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey in exchange for Soviet missiles in Cuba. On October 28, tenisons fell when Nikita Khrushchev announced that he would disband Soviet bases in Cuba and ship the missiles back to the Soviet Union and expressing his trust in the U.S. that they would not invade cuba. Two weeks after the agreement, the Soviet Union had removed most of the missiles and personel from Cuba they loaded them onto eight Soviet Union ships from November 5–9. In result from the Cuban Missile Crisis the **Moscow-Washington [|hotline] ** was created, also known as "The Red Telephone". It is a direct telephone line between Washington D.C. and Moscow. With the EX-COMM's and Nikita Khrushchev's communication and decison making helped avoid a world war.