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| Titel: | Cuba | |
| Beschreibung: | Cuba Crisis which was a highlight in the Cold War between the superpowers USA and USSR... | |
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| Autor: | Mikko Zips | |
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Cuba
My report is about the Cuba Crisis which was a
highlight in the Cold
War between the superpowers USA and USSR
(Soviet Union). Among highlights were the
Corean
war (1950-1953), the
construction of Berlin
wall (1961), the
Vietnamese
war (1946-1975) and the cutthroat of both
systems in the Third
World.
The Cold War wasn’t really a war in it’s
ordinary meaning. There wasn’t any direct military contact, but there were
many fierce economic, diplomatic and ideological
conflicts
since 1917, in which the Soviet Union had been founded and declared war on the
western system.
Now I am going to tell you the facts, which led to
the Cuba crisis. It started in 1959 when Fidel Castro took over in Cuba. One
year later he began to nationalize
companies, also american. That was part of his
revolution. The american weren’t pleased with that action and so they
stopped
trading with Cuba. So Cuba made friendship with
Russia, economically and politically.
The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
planed the
invasion of Cuba. About 1300
exile-cubans,
equiped with US-weapons, had to go in two days from south Cuba to Havana
(capital). There they had the order to
overthrow
Castro. The CIA thought, that many cubans and
maybe some cuban armed forces would join them. John F. Kennedy, the successor of
Dwight D. Eisenhower, permitted the plan. So the exile-cubans landed on Cuba on
the 17th of April in 1961. But the
cubans
hit the invaders
back.
After 2 days of hard fight 100 invaders had been killed and about 1200 arrested
by cuban armed forces.
After that failed invasion
the
american government and the CIA had been
denounced
inner- and outerpolitically. Especially the
russian
government was shocked. In summer 1962 the
russians
deployed
some rockets
on Cuba to protect the island of following
attacks and to have an advantage over the armament race between the US and the
USSR. In mid-October american
scout planes
discovered
the russian military bases. In the evening of
the 22nd of October in 1962 John F. Kennedy said in a
broadcast
that the United States of America wouldn’t except that action. From the
24th of October on the US would stop all ships with destination Cuba, search for
offensive weapons and if these are existing, send the ships back. At the same
time american
forces on the whole world had been
put on the
alert. Planes with atomic bombs were all time
long in the air, waiting for the call from Washington to bomb Moscow. The
situation seemed to
escalate
from the Cold War to the Hot War. And this would have been the 3rd World War
with use of nuclear weapons.
On the 28th of October 1962 the russian president
Nikita Chruschtschow decided, after intensive negotiations, to
remove
the military bases. In return for that action the US won’t do an invasion
of Cuba again and they removed Moscow- faced
rockets
from the Turkey. 1963 the Cuba crisis ended.
Both superpowers installed the
“hot
line“, a direct connected telegraph
connection from the “white house“ (Washington) to the
“Kremlin“ (Moscow) to communicate in a better way. And even to
resolve problems faster. They also ran a worldwide
policy of
détente, or better: they tried to. They
began to run a policy of detente in the 70s. The Cold War ended with the break
down of the Soviet Union in the early 90s.
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Eiszeit in den Tropen. Botschafter bei Fidel Castro (Gebundene Ausgabe)
von Bernd Wulffen | |
| Siehe auch: | |
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| Kuba - nach Fidel. Kann die Revolution überleben? von Fidel Castro | |
| Comandante | |
| Das tägliche Nichts. von Zoe Valdes | |
| Die Autobiographie des Fidel Castro von Norberto Fuentes | |
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