... the result of such accumulating anxiety among the Soviet political elite. The growing tensions of the United States and Cuba followed after the rise of Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution of 1959. In 1960 the U.S set up trade embargos under the Platt Amendment to control Castro's growing Communist regime. Late April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sensed the U.S embargo as ... Council, a group of twelve advisors comprised of intelligence, Defense and State Department officials, along with Vice President Johnson, to handle the crisis. Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine in Cuba to...

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