What was the Cuban Missile Crisis and how did it end?
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a political and military standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. It began in October 1962 and continued for 13 tense days. It was resolved when the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for a US promise not to invade Cuba and to remove US missiles from Turkey.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was stated as a direct and dangerous confrontation between the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. It was an unique and a dramatic crisis of secret communications and miscommunications and was also characterized by the fact that it was primarily played out of the White House and the Kremlin level with relatively little input from the bureaucracies typically involved in the foreign policy process.
This Crisis stood as a singular event during the Cold War and strengthen Kennedy's image domestically and internationally.
Although the Crisis ended but the naval quarantine continued until the Soviets agreed to remove their IL- 28 bombers from Cuba and, on November 20, 1962, the United States ended the quarantine. In an effort to prevent this from happening again, a direct telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin was established; which became known as a 'Hotline'. Later the superpowers began to reconsider the nuclear arms race and took the first steps in agreeing to a nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
This Crisis stood as a singular event during the Cold War and strengthen Kennedy's image domestically and internationally.
Although the Crisis ended but the naval quarantine continued until the Soviets agreed to remove their IL- 28 bombers from Cuba and, on November 20, 1962, the United States ended the quarantine. In an effort to prevent this from happening again, a direct telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin was established; which became known as a 'Hotline'. Later the superpowers began to reconsider the nuclear arms race and took the first steps in agreeing to a nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis ended when the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for the United States promising not to invade Cuba and secretly agreeing to remove missiles from Turkey.