In depth notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Covers everything in this topic that is needed for the IEB Matric exam. Completely summarized, and provides dates and acronyms to help you remember the information.
CUBAN MISSILE CRISES 1962
BACKGROUND
- Cuba was a US dependency
- Had corrupt governments
- In 1953 - Balista took control as a dictator
- Castro (Fidel) after a failed attempt - used a guerrilla attack partnering with
Geuvara to overthrow Batista
- Siezed power 1959
- Castro began reforms to change Cuba
- Literacy campaign, land redistribution to peasants, improve education and
healthcare
- Although these sound like communist acts, told US Cuba is not. Even after
censoring press
- Sanctions (eg oil) from US is what led to
- Supplies (oil and sugar) now coming from USSR
- END RESULT: Cuba switches to USSR dependancy, they provide arms, oil
sugar ect.
- So US declared Cuban to be communist, and began plans to overthrow
Castro
, BAY OF PIGS INVASION (C.A.R.T.I.N.G. T.H.E.A.K.I.N.S. K.A.B.E.D.)
- CIA recruited and trained 1400 Cuban exiles for an invasion - to be launched
from Nicaragua
- Aircrafts and ships were supplied to them
- Revolution wanted
- The US pretended to have no involvement - didn’t want to look like
aggressor. Yet USSR, Cuba and other countries soon became aware of plan
and US involvement
- Invasion launched April 1961
- No Cuban people raised up to support as hoped - defeated in 4 days
- Gave people hope that US imperialism could be defeated
- This made Castro fear a full US invasion
- He asked USSR for military and economic assistance
- End of 1961 - declared communist
- Arms supplied to Cuba, but Castro felt Cuba would be safer if it also had
USSR / Soviet troops
- Khrushchev obliged
- In 1962 - USSR worried that US had larger and longer range nuclear weapons
than them
- Nuclear weapons belonging to US stationed in Europe and Turkey - USSR’s
border
- Soviet’s weapons however had to be delivered to America by bombers
- Khrushchev wanted to put missiles in Cuba to o set the gap
- Although Castro worried about Cuba becoming a target for US
- But he agreed
- Essential that US did not ind out until after missiles were installed (else they
could destroy them)
- Deployed 36 medium range and intermediate range missiles in Cuba. Also
increased military. 50 000 soviet troops sent in and given a further aircraft
f ff
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