Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Arms Race
- Stabilised the Cold War
- arms deterrent
- prevented direct nuclear conflict
- respected spheres
- Hungary 1956
- superpower co-op
- results of Cuba
- Destabilised superpower relations
- US brinkmanship
- Massive Retaliation policy
- to the brink of war in Cuba
- economic cost
- Khrushchev became tougher in talks
- prompted use of cheaper,
short range missiles in Cuba
over long range ones in USSR
- secrecy of the arms race
- unknown leader/fear of inferiority
- Cuba
- 1959 Castro in power
- US relations worsen
- Castro met Nixon 1959
- Nixon decides he is communist
- Castro nationalised US businesses in Cuba
- petrol + sugar trade ended by US
- Cuba increase dependance on USSR
- USSR buys Cuban sugar
and sells them petrol
- 1961 Cuba becomes officially communist
- exiled Cubans invade Bay of Pigs and humiliated
- Castro enters USSR defence deal
- 1962 nuclear weapons in Cuba
- US ships form blockade around Cuba
- Khrushchev proposes to remove nuclear weapons if US
removes theirs from Turkey and pledge to never invade Cuba
- Kennedy publicly pledges not to invade
- plus secret pledge to remove Turkey missiles
- Results
- Hot Line 1963
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963
- allowed underground tests