It took place during the call of the "Missile Crisis" in Cuba in October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. ... In 1961 Fidel Castro proclaimed officially a social character of his government. ... After seven days of guarded and intense debate within the upper arrangements government, Kennedy concluded to lay a naval quarantine around Cuba. ... However, the Cuban government was frustrated because either the United States or the Russ did not include Fidel Castro in the agreement to remove the nuclear missiles from Cuba. ...

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The international case I chose was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. ... Placing this kind of weapons in Cuba would detonate the United States government to a potential attack against the Soviet Union. Fidel Castro the president of Cuba approved the placing of weapons in Cuba due to the fact that he was measuring a way to secure and defend his country from potential U.S attacks. ... Kennedy demanded that the Soviets had to withdraw all of their offensive weapons and missiles from Cuba. ... States would have attacked Cuba and it would all have turned out into a big battlefield of nuclear weapon...

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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Soviet Union was very much behind the United States in the arms race or the Cold War. ... After seven days of guarded and intense debate within the upper echelons of government, Kennedy concluded to impose a naval quarantine around Cuba. ... In the letter he demanded that the U.S. remove of its missiles in Turkey in exchange for Soviet missiles in Cuba. ... He also expressed his trust that the United States will not invade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of President Kennedy's greatest accomplishments. ...

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The military officials wanted a full-scale search and destroy invasion of Cuba to remove the nuclear weapons from Cuba before the Soviet Union ordered a strike. ... The United States government should have resolved the issue before treats of invasion and nuclear warfare occurred. ... Khrushchev made a brash and bold gambit in shipping the missiles to Cuba. ... The United States decided not to bomb Cuba and to just enforce a naval blockade. ... The Cuban missile crisis was alarming time in American history. ...

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On April 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahí de Cochinos on the south coast of Cuba. The group of exiles were trained in Guatemala by members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and supplied with arms by the U.S. government, the rebels planned to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro. ... -Cuban relations. ... Castro allowed the Soviet Union to bring missiles into Cuba for Cuba's protection. ... North Vietnam were forcing, Communism, a government structure that not everyone agreed with on to South Vietnam. ...

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He called himself a "Marxist-Leftist" and ruled over Cuba with an iron fist. ... Cubans were fleeing to the Miami coast as quickly as they could. ... But is it really as bad as our government makes it out to be? ... However, to the person growing up in a third world country, or an eastern civilization, Communism might be more attractive than their present form of government, if one exists at all. ... He sent the 1,500 invaders to Cuba; most of them were captured. ...

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The United States government feared that the unrest would eventually lead to a communist takeover, so they discretely established contact with Batista to help him run Cuba during the presidency of five different presidents, until they felt he was ready to be president. ... So many people hated Batista that Cuba became unified against him and Fidel became the leader of the resistance to Batista's government. ... While still in prison, Fidel found out that his wife was working for Batista's government and was demanding a divorce. ... Fidel immediately began leading the revolution ag...

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STAGE 5 The Aftermath THE CUBAN missile crisis has had important long-term effects. Even during the crisis itself, some of us in the U.S. government, and I presume in the Soviet government as well, were thinking ahead to the future. ... In the years following the missile crisis the Soviet Union was not disposed to attempt again to deploy elements of its strategic nuclear power in Cuba, and the United States was not disposed to invade Cuba. ... As earlier noted, the United States had never issued any public or official statement of a commitment...

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was organized by the CIA and was intended to overthrow Castro, whose Communist government, in Cuba, lay just 90 miles from the Florida coast. ... The attempt on the invasion of Cuba was a total failure . ... The Cuban government later released the captured exiles after a ransom was paid. ... In reality we have to look no further than the American government. ... American destroyers hovered near the Cuban coast, as crewmen painted over the vessels name, so the Cubans wouldn't recognize them. ...

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The real reason was dis-satisfaction with the policies and style of his government. ... Also some other factors that aided with Khrushchev's ejection was the humiliation of the USSR in the Cuban missile crisis; for the widening split with China; and for his flamboyant personal style. ... He transferred more power to his party and government system than any of his predecessors had done. ... Even though Brezhnev's KGB still tried to repress any one that was against the government, he was more moderate than any other Soviet leaders. ...

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