What Caused The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cold War was a conflict after the Second World War (1945-1992), between various countries that represented different ideologies. This war was characterized by the strained relations between the United States and Russia. It started in 1918, when the communists and anti-communists fought in the Russian Civil war, including the U.S which had sent troops to fight the communists. The communists won in Russia and established communism. During WWII, the Soviet Union and the United States formed an alliance against their common enemy; Hitler. In the end when they were able to defeat him and end fascism. Afterwards, all of the major countries; France, England, U.S, Russia; were looking to get indemnisation from the war damages. However, they could

Against the Eastern bloc; made up by the Soviet Union and its Communist allies. Within the eastern bloc, there were allies in America as well. Such was the case of Cuba, which was used for the implantation of missiles and caused furor in the U.S and America in general. This act occasioned the Cuban Missile Crisis. The occurrence could have caused M.A.D (mutually assured destruction), not only for the U.S and the USSR but for everyone involved. Therefore, the Cuban Missile Crisis and M.A.D, made it possible to see what could happen if nuclear warfare was implemented in the war, making this a necessary incident for the impediment of WWWIII. Back in Germany, the U.S had made a separation in the country to counteract the doings of the communists. West Germany was born in 1949 and the East was already under Soviet control. A dispute, however, was faced because of Berlin. This state in Germany was split between the eastern and the western blocs, thus the Berlin Wall or the “Iron curtain” was made to separate the two “worlds”. German leaders of the western side, wished to be the representatives of all of the country, but the soviets

Cuba saw this and found another great buyer for its most rentable product, The Soviet Union. Influenced by the USSR, Cuba nationalized all of the oil companies in its country and Fidel Castro and other communist generals managed to repel the Americans and establish communism in Cuba. Not only was it a strategic disadvantage, it also meant that it could inspire other Latin-American countries to follow the same path of Cuba and communist gaining the upper hand on the United States. While Cuba did it, no other countries in Latin-America ever followed. One of the most notorious triggers for the Cuban Missile Crisis was the incident of the Bay of Pigs. It was an attempt of invasion to Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro (Cuba´s president, and later on, minister). This happened as an effect of the United States’ fear of the communist enemies being so close to them. The United States failed in this attempt of invasion; they were overwhelmed by Castro´s and “Che” Guevara´s forces that terminated them in 72 hours. One of the biggest failures of the United States that caused many repercussions. John F. Kennedy, the president of the U.S at the time planned another invasion and decided to use Nicaragua´s territory