HIS 1111 Lecture 10: HIS 1111 - Feb 15th - Cuban Missile Crisis
Document Summary
The cuban missile crisis: at the cuban brink (1957-1963) The cuban missile crisis represents the climax of the cold war. It is a critical insight into understanding the forces driving the cold war. In 1953, after stalin"s death, there was a great opportunity for peace for the people of the soviet. Union, as well as peace between the usa and soviet union. This did not pan out well and the soviets snubbed the offer for a peaceful coexistence from the. This period was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. In 1957, soviet engineers launched sputnik, the rst man-made object to go to space. Eisenhower announced wrongfully that the su launched a satellite into space to send a message to the us that it now had sophisticated technologies. This raised fear of possible attack by the soviet union on the us. Khrushchev was a socialist, charismatic gure in the soviet union.