... , their efforts crossed, and what resulted is the Cuban Missile Crisis. This conflict between Russia and the United States was an intense event, from its beginnings, to the roles of Russian and American leaders, and finally to its non-violent conclusion. In discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis, there are several events that made this the climax of the Cold War. First ... , America's attack on a sovereign nation in an attempt to overthrow their existing government was a complete failure, and set America at odds with Cuba. Such failure at Bay of Pigs allowed the communists to remain and Fide...

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... failed miserably. This invasion gave the Soviets an excuse to begin shipping arms to Cuba in 1961. The Russian President(Premier) had given the order to send the equipment to start building nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba. 2The United States government knew that the arms were being shipped into Cuba, but they were not told that nuclear weapons were included ... and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, suggested a more "diplomatic"; possibly a naval blockade, or quarantine, of Cuba. This involved a wall of naval gunboats around the island and cutting it off from Russian shipments....

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... April 17, 1961 the troops were moved into a bay known as the Bay of Pigs. The exiles were quickly defeated. Those who weren't killed were held prisoner by the Cuban Government. Khrushchev decided then to build missile bases and installations in Cuba so they would have the upper hand if the U.S. decided to retaliate against the Soviet Union. They would be ... able to launch intermediate range nuclear missiles back at the U.S. Florida being only about 95 miles away from Cuba would mean that the U.S. wouldn't be able to respond to a Russian counter-attack. The next fourteen days are known ...

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... two rising superpowers, historians have varying views on what the real conflict was. In Thomas H. Naylor's book The Cold War Legacy he describes the fact that the leaders of each government created a hostile environment in its people "Right-wing politicians, religious fundamentalists, and American Sovietologists have been telling us since the late 1940"s "You can't trust the Russians."" p39 What Naylor ... political rivalry namely that Americans believed communism was evil and that Russians believed Capitalism was evil. Other authors such as Jim Garrison and Pyare Shivpuri who wrote the...

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