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The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The “Alliance for Progress”
• President John F. Kennedy hoped to improve relations with Latin America to prevent the spread of Communism.
• He pledged $20 billion to help the economic development through what was called the Alliance for Progress (name of his plan).
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Bay of Pigs
• JFK and the CIA want Fidel Castro, the Communist Dictator of Cuba, to be removed from power.
• Cuban exiles trained to invade Cuba– with US arms, material and training– and were sent to start an uprising against Castro.
• The invasion took place on April 17, 1961.
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A Total Failure
• Castro puts an easy end to the Bay of Pigs invasion, defeating the exiles quickly.
• Kennedy and the US don’t send air support
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Pictures
The launch sites for the nuclear missile silos
President John F. Kennedy
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The Actual Cuban Missile Crisis• The Soviet Union feared
another US invasion of Cuba.• Castro allows for Nikita
Khrushchev to build nuclear missile launch silos in Cuba.
• Navy blockades Cuba, preventing any further supply from USSR.
• Kennedy demands removal of weapons.
• Soviets remove their missiles, and a potential crisis is avoided.
• US has to promise never to invade Cuba again.
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War Avoided
• For the first time the US was at the brink of nuclear war.
• Florida is only 90 miles from Cuba, so an attack would have hurt our homeland without any doubt.
• Krushchev has Soviet Missiles removed from Cuba.
• “Brinkmanship”
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Results of Cuban Missile Crisis
• Hot Line Established
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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Is it time to end the embargo against Cuba?