The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis

This essay had to do with the Cuban missile crisis. The paper starts with the Berlin wall. It talks about the division it symbolized. From this, there were many bad things that developed between the U.S and the Soviet Union. But it is also suggested while the U.S was using democracy as a jumping board we did not adhere to all of the principles is came with. In one passage it states that, "On principle that global wars, and revolutionary wars, are not won by the squeamish, America developed defacto alliances around the globe with little regard for the democratic principles it claimed to be defending". The paper also introduces the fact that television was coming to be a great power in the 1960's. Not only did people get to watch news, but they saw candidates. The Kennedy-Nixon debate was telegraphed for the first time. It effected not only the outcome of the election, but by the time of Kennedy's assassination people felt that they had lost someone close and very dear to them.

After Kennedy's election, the situation between the U.S and the Soviets had gotten worse. Many people felt like they were caught in the middle. While the U.S represented capitalism and the Soviet represented a communist state, many were reluctant to endorse one or the other. And now there was also a divisions between the rich and the poor to worry about. Kennedy and Khrushchev also had a fascination with James bond figures. Both men recruiting and making new special opts forces. Kennedy starting the Green Berets. By this time intelligence had let the U.S know of Soviet missile sites. Khrushchev was aware of being on the verge of this nuclear balance and was a afraid of Kennedy and the Pentagon advisors. There was even a book made by the American Kahn stating that the idea of such a war was thinkable, and could be survived by people.

On September 8th, the Soviet cargo