Cuban Missile Crisis - created from Mind Map

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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