What were the first stages?
Cuban missile
crisis
By Ronan Reinhardt
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a one month
long confrontation by the U.S. and USSR that
eventually turned into a 13 day “crisis” when
American deployments of missiles in Turkey
and Italy were matched by Soviet deployments
of ballistic missiles in Cuba.
Sources:
History.com “Cuban Missile Crisis”
“Cuban Missile Crisis” and “Fidel
Castro” from Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Any fool can start a war, and once
he's done so, even the wisest of
men are helpless to stop it especially if it's a nuclear war.
In 1959 leftist revolutionary leader Fidel
Castro seized power in Cuba and aligned
himself with the USSR. On October 14, 1962
an American U-2 spy-plane piloted by Major
Richard Heyser was making a high-altitude
pass over Cuba when he photographed a
Soviet SS-4 medium ranged ballistic missile
being assembled for installation in Cuba.
President of the United States John F.
Kennedy was briefed about the situation on
October 16, He called ExComm and for the
next to weeks him and ExComm dealt with a
major diplomatic crisis.
Nikita Khrushchev
Brink of war
President John F. Kennedy notified Americans of
the presence of missiles in Cuba just 90 miles
from U.S. shores. Kennedy explained his
decision to create a naval blockade around Cuba.
Kennedy made it clear that he was prepared to
use any military force to stop any possible
attacks. After this announcement many people
feared the U.S. and USSR were on the brink of
war. Luckily war was avoided when USSR
leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the
missiles from Cuba in exchange for the U.S. not
to invade Cuba.
Who was Fidel Castro?
Fidel Castro was a Cuban politician and lawyer who
served as leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008. Fidel was
also the first secretary of the communist Party of
Cuba from 1961 to 2011. Fidel played many major
roles in the Cuban Missile Crisis.