Cuban Missile Crisis

[Xanderbeaux]

We are going to start seeing the cuban missile crisis, before we start i would like other opinions on it, so any info you can give would be cool. Latez

-Xanderbeaux

[bleed3r]

Ah, in school? The CMC is still my favorite topic in history. Krushchev was a smart man, he came very close to gaining lots of favor worldwide by making kennedy look like a moron. I don't believe he ever planned on actually using the nukes, rather keeping the US in check and making various negotiations that may have very well led to a wider sphere of communistic influence. Had the missiles gone unnoticed a little bit longer, they would have been ready for use, and some deals could have been negotiated to limit the US's political power significantly... If you have nukes aimed at your nation's capital, your choices are to either fight it and be destroyed while simultaneously starting a nuclear WWIII (possible armageddon), or creating diplomacy. One deal after another would lead to great limitations. The idea of global nuclear war is horrifying to me...

Go rent the movie "Thirteen Days", it's about the missile crisis and it's fairly historically accurate. It's from an american perspective but still interesting aside from the obvious propaganda implications.

[Revolution Hero]

That movie shows the subjective viewpoint of the USA. Not a good source to learn from. " Thirteen Days" shows the victory of US diplomacy, and that is far from the truth.
USSR have located it's missiles in Cuba, as the answer to US missiles in Turkey. So, what happened in the result, USA have took their missiles away. And USSR have got what they had wanted.

[Revolution Hero]

That movie shows the subjective viewpoint of the USA. Not a good source to learn from. " Thirteen Days" shows the victory of US diplomacy, and that is far from the truth.
USSR have located it's missiles in Cuba, as the answer to US missiles in Turkey. So, what happened in the result, USA have took their missiles away. And USSR have got what they had wanted.

[kingbee]

im just doin my gcses and did that. i was the only person knowing anything about american foreign policy (not trying to brag). werent che and castro angry at kruschev for not negotiating with them about the leaving of the missiles? che didnt like kruschev anyway- he didnt like the way he crushed the rebellions in east europe. USSR should have held their ground- i dont think america would have started a new world war.

[Menshevik]

I say that because Kennedy didn't give the go on unrelentless bombings, the CIA had him killed. Now, I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it is widely believed that the Kennedy assassination was a vast, complex plot.

Kennedy refuses to allow bombing of Cuba, so the Invasion is a total failure. And who do you think funded it? Why, the CIA of course. The majority of the CIA had Republican and far-right leanings, so they didn't want Kennedy getting re-elected, or anything like that. The Joint-Chiefs-of Staff as well as the CIA felt that Kennedy's actions during the Missile Crisis were subversive to the welfare of the US and downright dangerous. They would have been just as happy to start a nuclear war, luckily they werent totally in charge.

His assassination was pay-back for the botched Bay of Pigs, his indecisiveness during the Missile Crisis, and other "liberal nonsense." Look at Lee Harvey Oswald. He's a supposed defecter living in the USSR. He's happy, he has a wife, house, etc. Why would he come all the way back to the US (where he himself was likely to be recognized and imprisoned for treason) to kill Kennedy who was trying to improve US-Soviet relations? During the assassination, how could he have managed to fire off 3 shots at a moving target with an old-fashioned Italian bolt-action rifle? Furthermore, after his arrest, how is it that just as he's being taken away for further interrogation (where it is thought that he was going to tell everything) he's rubbed out by a petty thief and pimp from Las Vegas, who is later killed in prison? It just seems too fishy to be mere coincidence. There had to have been a plot to some extent. Thats my 2 cents on the Cuban Missile Crisis