What would be a good research question about the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 1

What were the biggest causes that lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 2

how did the United States react to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 3

How did the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis influence John Kennedy to commit troops to South Vietnam? Was this actually the underlying incentive to "take action" because of failure at the Bay of Pigs and later, brinksmanship only 90 mile from Florida?

Answer 4

1)
How to reconcile new information coming out of the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the inner sanctums of the U S. Government? How to locate the thousands of classified documents spread across the globe, many never before released, in order to piece together a comprehensive and balanced record of the crisis?

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With its documentary richness and balance of perspectives,the collection opens important research vistas:


The complex interplay and continuing tension between political goals and military operations
U.S. and Soviet nuclear strategy and the dynamics of nuclear weapons in the international arena
U.S. Interagency decision making and "crisis management"
A historical reassessment of John F. Kennedy and his Administration's foreign policy
The Cuban missile crisis as the seminal event in U.S. relations with Castro's Cuba
U.S. perception of Soviet foreign policy and crisis behavior in the Cold War
An in-depth look at U.S. intelligence collection and assessment


i found these first two questions from http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/cmc/cmc.html


3)
What was the decided advantage that U.S. had over the Soviet Union in the period leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 5

What was the United States' military and social preparedness to go to nuclear war over Cuba?

A good book to read, an alternate history in which nuclear war DID happen over Cuba's missiles supplied by the USSR, is Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois.

Answer 6

How come the United States was so clueless to not realizing that nuclear missiles were 90 miles away from their backyard

Answer 7

How close did the World come to Nuclear War?

Answer 8

Why is cuba STILL under sanctions?
It's only punishing the people!

Answer 9

I got one!

"How did it come to this?"

Answer 10

why did it never happen again?

where is cuba?