HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cuban Revolution, Vienna Summit, Toothpaste
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How appropriate was this depiction of khrushchev in time magazine as the main antagonist. Cuban missile crisis was a culmination of several events. Failure to solve berlin issue, was super important to khrushchev. Reluctance to allow deviation from their own thoughts of political structure. Two communist powers that at one point were thought to be able to dominate the world spread communism. By the early 60s and late 60s, they would come to blows. All of these events bring in the usa and ussr into a collision course. Blamed the usa as the main catalyst of the cuban crisis. Cuban missile crisis was a culmination of american mistakes made in the 50s and the ussr was obliged to support cuba. Say that khrushchev violated ir and understanding between the two partners, trying to sneak in a solution that would upset the balance of power and give the upper hand to the ussr, which was unacceptable.
