The Cuban Missile Crisis by Jaden Swiney https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm tryna get a good grade that's it en-us 2021-05-14 14:43:42 UTC 2024-06-16 22:05:02 UTC hello@padlet.com 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525269096 In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.]]> 2021-05-14 16:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525269096 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525304700 San Cristobal, Cuba which was only 90 miles away from the US and Washington DC in 1962. This conflict lasted only 13 days]]> 2021-05-14 16:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525304700 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525336290 Ussr was a Communist Party with a Marxist ideology, Leninism, and dictatorship. The United States was based upon capitalism and democracy. The Cuban revolution came about when Fidel Castro came to power. “Over the course of 1959 and 1960, US-Cuban relations worsened due to Castro’s anti-US rhetoric and radical policies, especially his refusal to hold elections.” (n/a,khan academy ,2020). Because of his bad relationship with the US Fidel turned to the USSR to gain better weapons and political support to the Cuban revolution. ]]> 2021-05-14 16:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525336290 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525340410 Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this "quarantine," as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. Russian didn’t know Cuba had missiles and they declared the us naval blockade war, it took almost 2 weeks of negotiating to prevent a nuclear war with Cuba]]> 2021-05-14 16:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525340410 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525363124 The US and Cuba both won because they didn’t have their lands blown up or their people killed In 1963, there were signs of a lessening of tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. In his commencement address at American University, President Kennedy urged Americans to reexamine Cold War stereotypes and myths and called for a strategy of peace that would make the world safe for diversity. on July 25, 1963, the Kremlin and the White House and the signing of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 

]]> 2021-05-14 16:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525363124 Was the USA's goals in the conflict a success or a failure? 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525386421 It was successful because President Kennedy did not want to have a nuclear war between the Soviets and Cuba but on Cuba's land. but It could be looked at as a failure today because Cuba and the US still aren’t on good terms]]> 2021-05-14 16:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525386421 How did the outcome of the conflict impact the United State's CURRENT relationship with the country? 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525388538 Communist Cuba was a major foreign policy challenge for the United States during the Cold War. The bilateral relationship thawed considerably under President Obama, but the Trump administration reimposed restrictions. The U.S.-Cuba relationship has been plagued by distrust and antagonism since 1959, the year Fidel Castro overthrew a U.S.-backed regime in Havana and established a socialist state allied with the Soviet Union. During the half-century that followed, successive U.S. administrations pursued policies intended to isolate the island country economically and diplomatically. Obama and Raul Castro surprised the world in late 2014 by announcing that their governments would restore full diplomatic ties and begin to ease more than fifty years of bilateral tensions.]]> 2021-05-14 16:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525388538 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525407429 2021-05-14 16:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525407429 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525431048 2021-05-14 16:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1525431048 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1539481382 Communist Cuba was a major foreign policy challenge for the United States during the Cold War. The bilateral relationship thawed considerably under President Obama, but the Trump administration reimposed restrictions. The U.S.-Cuba relationship has been plagued by distrust and antagonism since 1959, the year Fidel Castro overthrew a U.S.-backed regime in Havana and established a socialist state allied with the Soviet Union. During the half-century that followed, successive U.S. administrations pursued policies intended to isolate the island country economically and diplomatically. Obama and Raul Castro surprised the world in late 2014 by announcing that their governments would restore full diplomatic ties and begin to ease more than fifty years of bilateral tensions.]]> 2021-05-19 13:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1539481382 video 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1539627116 2021-05-19 13:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1539627116 3031072 https://padlet.com/3031072/14mkeatspx5t7uzm/wish/1539658122 Resources: Cuban Missile Crisis | JFK Library. (2021). Retrieved 14 May 2021, from https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis. (2021). Retrieved 14 May 2021, from https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
U.S.-Cuba Relations. (2021). Retrieved 14 May 2021, from https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-cuba-relations


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