The Cuban Missile Crisis

A detailed Summary of The Cuban Missile Crisis

1:) President Kennedy's reaction to the photographs would be much like anyone else in the USA: shocking.

He wakes up from a nights sleep to find that Cuba had made bases containing missiles and atomic weapons right under his nose. The missile once launched could easily destroy cities and towns across America; the furthest reaching parts of Canada. Once more the increase in Soviet cargo ships heading to Cuba made the Soviets suspects. Kennedy must have felt very scared. The fate of the world could have lied in this mans' hands. Such a little country with so much power, this could not go on. America was very vulnerable at this stage, which was probably why Kennedy was so scared.

President Kennedy said, 'we were facing great trouble', in source A. this shows he knew that nothing god could come of it, and there could be something very bad happening. Within a few minutes of these missiles being fired, it could have killed 80,000,000 American citizens. President Kennedy had every reason to be worried.

2:) I feel that President Kennedy decided to blockade Cuba because there were no other clever choices, and a blockade would mean slowing down the chances of war. He could bomb Cuba, and destroy their weapon

Also, Khrushchev trusted Kennedy, 'I regard with respect and trust the statement in your letter of 27 October that there would be no attack.' This quote is from Source H.

But beyond all the political differences, Kennedy and Khrushchev took time to talk to each other and tried to settle the dispute. In the end they even set up a hotline to one another, a sign that it was over, done and dusted.

(When it says, 'these sources', does it mean A,B,C,D,E, and F or just E and F?)

5:) (i) The sources differ greatly from one another. Both of them are completely biased to their country, and both are exaggerated a lot. Lines like: 'John F Kennedy had won,' 'The Soviet government was backing down,' 'Finally Kennedy gave in,' 'It was a great victory for us,' 'A triumph of Soviet foreign policy,' and 'A spectacular success without having to fire a shot. All these quotes are very unfair and biased. No one won the dispute, however, each source twists the facts slightly, and turns it into a triumph.

s, but the Soviets they would ship in more, and then retaliate, then a world war would break out, and other countries would have been in uproar that America picked on such a little country. He could have assassinated Castro, but if he did a new leader would come into power hungry for revenge. If he invaded Cuba, thousands upon thousands of his soldiers would perish in vain. There were no other options. If the US did blockade Cuba, at least it could ensure no more offensive weapons could have been transported in. Every other way had some sort of drawback, except the blockade.

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Category: History