HIST 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: Cuban Missile Crisis, Earl Warren, Fidel Castro
Document Summary
October 1962- su found building missile launching sites in cuba that could reach. Kennedy announced a naval blockade of cuba until weapons removed. Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles if kennedy wouldn"t invade cuba and remove missiles from turkey. Soon after, direct hotline between washington and moscow created for crises. 1963- su and u. s. + 100 nations signed the nuclear ban treaty to end testing of nuclear weapons on the atmosphere. Effort was offset by race for missile and warhead superiority. Cold war challenge- brushfire wars in africa and se asia, aided by su there. Congo in africa and laos and vietnam. Convinced kennedy administration to adopt flexible response policy. Moved away from dulles" idea of massive retaliation/ reliance on. Kennedy and mcnamara increased use of conventional(non-nuclear)arms and nukes military. Reduced risk of using nuclear weapons and increased temptation to send elite special forces on global combat such as green berets. November 22, 1963- kennedy assassinated when 2 bullets hit him.
