TOPIC – CUBAN
MISSILE CRISIS
By – Alpana Deka
Cuban Missile Crisis
◦ Cuban Missile Crisis made the whole world
suspicious by creating clashes between the two
superpowers, the US(United States of America) and
the USSR(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, now
Russia) namely Cold War.
◦ Cuba was an ally of the Soviet Union and received
diplomatic and financial aid from it. In April 1961,
leaders of the USSR were worried that the United
States of America would invade communist – ruled
Cuba and overthrow its President Fidel Castro.
◦ In 1962, the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita
Khrushchev, placed nuclear missiles in Cuba for
converting it into a Russian base.
◦ Three weeks later, Americans became aware of it. The US
President John F. Kennedy and his advisers tried to find a
solution to avoid full-scale nuclear war. But they were
determined to get Khrushchev to remove the missiles and
nuclear weapons from Cuba.
◦ Kennedy ordered American warships to intercept any
Soviet ships heading to Cuba as a way of warning the
USSR. This clash between the USA and the USSR came to
be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. It made the whole
world nervous.
◦ The Cuban Missile Crisis was a high point which came to
be known as the Cold War. It refers to the competition,
the tensions and a series of confrontations between the
United States and Soviet Union.
USA
During World war II , the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies
against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense
one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian
leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets
resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of
the international community as well as their delayed entry into World War II, which
resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these
grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity
Postwar Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fueled many Americans’ fears of a
Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they
perceived as American officials’ bellicose rhetoric, arms buildup and interventionist
approach to international relations. In such a hostile atmosphere, no single party was
entirely to blame for the Cold War; in fact, some historians believe it was inevitable.
USSR
The full form of USSR is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. It was a
government sovereign state that existed in the Northern area of Europe and Asia
from 1922 to 1991. It was a one-party state and was controlled by the Communist
party. Moscow was its capital. It had five climatic zones: Mountains, Tundra,
desert, steppes and taiga. It had around of eleven time zones. The USSR came
into presence after the 1917 Russian revolution was finished which had
effectively removed Tsar Nicholas II. Subsequently, the USSR was additionally
considered as the replacement of the Russian Empire. It appeared in Dec 1922.
The nations, such as Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and other Transcaucasian
Republics involves of this association. During the war era, USSR was the
strongest from the US, it was first among country directed the human into space
in 1961. Its was self-governed state, handled by soviet parties with Moscow as a
capital in this democratic state.
