Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- American supported a corrupt regime under Fulgencio Batista until Cuban Revolution in 1959
- Fidel Castro took over
- Aligned with the Soviets
- The Bay of Pigs (failed invasion of Cuba)
- 1962 Soviets begin to put Nuclear weapons into Cuba (noticed by U02 spy planes)
The Crisis
- The US had 3 options: Diplomatic solution (negotiated settlement), A conventional attack (air attack followed by invasion), and A naval blockade
- Robert Kennedy, attorney general convinced Security Council to go with blockade
- Ships turn around at the quarantine
- 2 Letters sent from Krushchev to Kennedy
- Brinkmanship ensues (UN gets involved)
- Russians pull out of Cuba in exchange for a removal of missiles in Turkey at a later date
- Directly resulted in the Partial Test Ban Treaty 1962