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T.Razorman asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

Why did the crisis develop in Cuba develop in 1962?

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There are loads factors I just need some to complete my essay.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The Cuba Crisis was caused by the fact that the Sovjets placed munition (rockets) on Cuba and this was a real threat for the states. The USA reacted on this with a total blocking of Cuba with the navy.

    At the end, the Sovjets removed the munition.

  • 1 decade ago

    Any discussion of the reasons for the situation in Cuba must include the element of organized crime in America. After seizing power, Castro, as promised, set on a course of destroying elements of La Cosa Nostra(Our Thing) on the island.

    The casinos, hotels, whorehouses and other elements of vice, including the fanatically profitable drug trade disappeared as Castro nationalized the entire nation. With heat now coming from the US Justice department under RFK crime family's sought any means to rid the island of the Castro regime. This, of course, lead to some incredibly stupid and highly illegal schemes not only by President Kennedy(Without his knowledge or acceptance for the most part) and by the FBI and CIA. Here it falls into a bottomless pit of revenge and games of spook that to this day still have not been disclosed.

    This element must be included in any discussion of the crisis in Cuba in 1962.

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  • 1 decade ago

    The USSR wanted to stage medium range ballistic missiles in Cuba as a way to bring the Soviet influence to the western hemisphere. Fidel Castro was dangerously short of money, and the USSR was there to provide it, so long as Castro allowed the strategic missiles to remain on the island. After compiling photograhpic evidence from reconaissance flights, President Kennedy ultimately decided on a "Naval Quarantine" of the island as a way to stem the proliferation of the missiles, ensuring that the situation although tense, remained a political and not military matter. The USSR and the USA ambassadors to the UN fought the battle diplomatically. This and other actions caused the USSR to turn back additional shipments of MRBMs and the removal of the ones that were already on island.

    Source(s): Cuban-American, Studdied EXCOMM tapes between Kennedy, McNamara and RFK and others. Also have studied strategic relations between the US and USSR/Cuba
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There were many, many crises in Cuba in the summer of 1962. Not least of which was the extreme wig shortage that threatened to derail the entire operatic theatre industry. I personally believe the real reason was an epidemic of lice, however senior figures in the communist party will deny that even to this day.

  • 1 decade ago

    The U.S. had missile bases in Turkey, which bordered the Soviet Union, and so, Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, wanted to put missile bases close to the U.S., i.e. in Cuba. The U.S. took exception, thus the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Source(s): Or are you refering to the Bay of Pigs incident?
  • 1 decade ago

    because kennedy had to start something with fidel castro and when we tried to go in over the radar with the Bay of Pigs Mission it ended in complete failure and after that u can see why they hated us so much because we tried to assassinate their leader

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