Arms Race - created from Mind Map

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Stabilised the Cold War

Destabilised superpower relations

Cuba

arms deterrent

respected spheres

superpower co-op

prevented direct nuclear conflict

Hungary 1956

results of Cuba

US brinkmanship

economic cost

secrecy of the arms race

Massive Retaliation policy

to the brink of war in Cuba

Khrushchev became tougher in talks

prompted use of cheaper, short range missiles in Cuba over long range ones in USSR

unknown leader/fear of inferiority

1959 Castro in power

US relations worsen

Castro met Nixon 1959

Castro nationalised US businesses in Cuba

petrol + sugar trade ended by US

Nixon decides he is communist

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

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Hot Line 1963

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963

allowed underground tests