AUCW 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cuban Missile Crisis, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Public Knowledge
15 Nov 2016
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Had 33-point plan including chemical weaponry during sugar harvest. Lansdale was successful with the huks is philippines. Kennedy eventually lost faith in lansdale because he was unable to spark cuban rebellion. The repressed cubans are the blacks, fidel is pure spanish and not mulatto. Fidel represents the middle class and white revolutionaries. Task force w-located in university of miami in charge of this operation. Fidel is paranoid that the us are trying to overthrow him which is what sways them to ally with soviet. Many government officials are more pro-china than pro-soviet, china is promoting revolution and marxism elsewhere. China and russia are not always steadfast allies. Offensive soviet weapons placed in cuba, 40,000 soviets placed there, only. Excom-committee to decide reaction to negotiate with russia. Cuban missile crisis is anxiety for fidel. Respond with military force, arguments of to what degree. Can"t blockade cuba because it would be a declaration of war.
