PSCI 4376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cuban Missile Crisis, Truman Doctrine, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

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2 related us actions during the cold war: truman doctrine, 1949 - use of military and provision of supplies anywhere in any time that communist expansion is incurring. When a country is experiencing pressure to adopt communist form of government: us foreign policy of containment. First containment started chile attempted coup d" tat 1973, Vietnam 1958-1972: cuban missile crisis, castro promised elections, never held, assassinated sympathizers of opponent, sugar cane and tobacco industrialization, us worried it looked like communism arrived in the. West: us train cuban exiles in florida for military invasion, bay of pigs, per kennedy, 1300 were captured, castro convinced that president and us was weak. It was a nuclear warhead: d tente policy, nixon-kissinger, most significant policy created in 20th policy, recognized the possibility that more economic, political and social interactions between us and ussr would be positive sum. They would be good for the us and good for the ussr.

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