10.2 Cuban Missile Crisis -TEACH-

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10.2 The Cuban Missile Crisis

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Krushchev

leader

USSR

Fidel Castro

leader

Cuba

Mao Zedong

Leader

China

Kennedy

president

USA

Missiles at a Soviet Military Parade in Moscow. These missiles had nuclear warheads and a range of 1,100 miles. Dated 1961.

Nuclear arms race

Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin lying in state in the hall of Trade Union House, Moscow. (March 12, 1953). Photo by Keystone/Getty 

Nikita Krushchev

• peaceful Coexistence
• Destalinisation

In the fall of 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev spent 12 days touring the United States at the invitation of President Eisenhower.

In the picture you can see Eisenhower holding a miniature Sputnik, a present from Krushchev. 

• Cuban Revolution
• Fidel Castro
• communism

 Bay of Pigs Invasion.

a failed US invasion to end Castro's communist rule

A picture, taken by an American spy plane, clearly shows rocket installations being constructed on the Island of Cuba.

This evidence led to the Cuba Crisis.

• Castro turns to Moscow for help.
• Soviet missiles on Cuba

Source C

This newspaper map from the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows the distances from Cuba to various cities on the North American continent.

 The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet cargo ship ‘Anesov’, escorted by a US Navy plane and the destroyer ‘USS Barry’, as it leaves Cuba loaded with missiles. October 1962.

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