Cuban Missile Crisis Outline

How did the Cuban missile crisis shed light on the overall themes of the Cold War?

Important Figures

Andrei Gromyko

Nikita Khrushchev

Adlai Stevenson

John F. Kennedy

Dean Acheson

Fidel Castro

Robert F. Kennedy

Excomm

Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy:

Kenneth O'Donnell

Vice President:

Lyndon B. Johnson

Secretary of State:

Dean Rusk

CIA Director:

John McCone

Secretary of Defense:

Robert McNamara

Chairman of JCS:

General Maxwell Taylor

Points of View

Soviet

Cuban Leader Fidel Castro makes for good ally against America

Need for possible first strike capability on the US

American Missles already in place around USSR, awaiting orders

American

The Russians were considered to be very volatile and radical, so a missile base so close to America posed a great threat.

Missile Bases established in complete secrecy

Radical Castro had vendetta against America

Outside Nations

Some thought America was overreacting

Some thought the Russians were being too secretive and were up to nothing good

-Sequence of Events-

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