Cuban Missile Crisis - created from Mind Map

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Background

Arms Race

Khrushchev and Kennedy

Cuba

Historians think the fear of the damage could have stopped the fighting

Outcome

Berlin Wall

Americans put missiles on Soviet Union in Norway and Turkey

Background

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

JFK

blocked waters

Khrushchev backed down

Outcomes

Cuban Missile Crisis Outcomes

1963

1968

1972

1979

Hotline between Moscow and Washington

reduction of Nuclear weapons

Superpowers trying to build bigger and more deadly weapons (atom bomb, US-1945, Soviets-1949). Also huge rockets (inter-continental ballistic missiles) which could carry bombs for miles

After Stalin died in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev replaced him. He wanted to reduce tension between US and Russia (peaceful co-existence). In 1961 JFK became president of US (did not get on well)

Island off coast of US, had an American backed dictator called General Batista (until 1959). Americans controlled most industries including sugar and tobacco

1961 - an invasion of Cuba by former Cuban patriots. Invasion was backed by the CIA

1962 the USSR constructed missile sites in Cuba (capable of Nuclear attacks on US). Cuba allowed this in response to previous aid

JFK demanded their removal but Khrushchev refused

JFK decided to block Cuban waters (to prevent supplies from Russia)

Test Ban Treaty - all nuclear testing above ground was banned

Non-Proliferation Treaty - non-nuclear powers would not be helped to develop nuclear technology

SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks). Talks were held between Presidents Nixon and Brezhenev. The SALT1 treaty was signed, which limited the number of weapons on both sides

SALT2 was signed by Presidents Carter and Brezhenev

Cuban Missile Crisis

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