Cuban Missile Cris and Germany??

Question

Does the cuban missile crisis that happened during the Cold War relate in any way with Germany?

im doing this video for history class... my topic is Germany and the Cold War.
I already made up a minute and a half on the cuban missile crisis but then i realized that its not really connected to Germany.

So is there any possible way i can connect the two things? Like a German guy involved in it or something.

Answer 1

Hi Yassemine!

Yes, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the situation in Germany were related.

In Germany, the Russians had built the Berlin Wall, an admission that they could no longer compete with the prosperity and freedom in the west. Despite the Russian violation of numerous treaties, the US and its allies did nothing to defend their rights in Berlin.

The leadership in Moscow concluded that President John F. Kennedy was weak and that they could get away with even more. They came up with a scheme to neutralize America's nuclear superiority by loading Cuba with missiles capable of hitting much of the United States with virtually no warning time, and moreover the missiles would be under the control of the unstable, rabidly anti-American dictator Fidel Castro.

It was Kennedy's weakness in Berlin that emboldened the Russians.

Answer 2

There is no real connection. Germany was central to much of the cold war rhetoric and activity, and you don't need the Cuban missile crisis to illustrate your point. You have the Berlin wall, you have Kennedy and his speach Ich bin ein Berliner, you have the German scientists who were brought to the USSR involuntarily and who became the nucleus of the Soviet effort to build and test an atom bomb, you have Werner von Braun who brought his group of scientists to the US and built the US space program. And, then, the most dramatic moment of all--the collaps of the Berlin wall and the reunification of East and West Germany. I'd actually say that even if you could stretch a connection, you'd lose the drama of the real Germany story, if you included the Cuban missile crisis in your video.

Answer 3

Neither West nor East Germany had anything to do with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Answer 4

There was a very direct connection. Events during the Cuban Missile Crisis caused the hair triggers along the Fulda Gap to be at their highest state of alert. The Fulda Gap was the expected route of the Red Army thru Germany against NATO forces.

Answer 5

There really isn't any direct connection save the fact they were against democracy.

Answer 6

Too big of a stretch....sorry.