Cuban missile crisis question!?

Question

Did Khrushchev suggest 'peaceful co-existance'?
I'm not sure what it is!
And I know that Kennedy suggested something similar a while later, after the crisis, when they agreed on the test ban treaty some time in 1963.
Can someone tell me a bit more about this, and its significance?

Dim Blonde-
That's exactly why I went on here, cause half the things on the internet is a load of s***. And no these people obviously haven't copied and pasted outta wikipedia, I can tell by the comprehendable language!
When I go on the sites, I don't get the answer I'm looking for, or they over-complicate things majorly!

The majority of you aren't answering my question!
I'm asking aboout peaceful co existance, and most of you are telling me how the Cuban missile crisis occurred!

Answer 1

Khrushchev was in the process of implementing nuclear missiles at Cuba as discovered by our satellites and spy planes. Kennedy told him to leave and set up a blockade of Cuba. Russia backed down, and removed the missiles.

Very tense time

Answer 2

Ah the 30seconds to midnight period in front of what could have been the 2 day war to end all wars.
The tension all stems more from Eisenhowers regieme previously and the Gary Powers U2 incident and the discussion of open Skies and test bans. Khrushchev wanted the chance to cut back the race to one of near parity on Nuclear armaments as the US had a high overkill ratio over the Soviet Nuclear Arsenal. Apart from a 100 or so ICBM's the Soviets knew they had no hope of attacking the US with its current arsenal of wepons. So he was in a sense trying to bribe the US president and nation into surrendering a lead in that aspect and diffuse a nasty situation.
However with the bay of pigs fiasco in 1961, the Soviets where asked by the Cubans to help defend the small republic from the agressive stance of the US. The Soviets at first where only going to install defensive capabilities and assistance on the Island, but with the escalation of negotiations, the Jupiters in Turkey and the Royal Navy and French having support for there own Nuclear deterant the Soviets decided to increase the island parts to an Offensive capability as well as a detterent to the US threat.
Only once this had passed and sometime had elapsed did the Kennedy regieme proposal further talks to ease further the proliferation and testing of new wepons. Unfortunatley this did not come into effect because of the Assasination of Kennedy and LBJ becoming President who was a harder case Anti Soviet.
Hope this helps

Answer 3

Kennedy only being a new president was being tested when they done it in the first place.Luckily as much of the cold War was like a game of poker Kennedy won that hand.After Kennedy done the blockade and threatened to search all ships going to Cuba and stating that it would be considered an act of war if he put his missiles there Khrushchev backed off.Shortly after they put a direct line from the Kremlin to the White House to make sure there would not be a further threat of an all out nuclear war again.

Answer 4

I think Khrushchev came up with the term "peaceful co-existence" first in the 1950s. Khrushchev was a liberal force in the Soviet Union. Anything would be liberal after Stalin.

Like all political statements it should be treated with caution but I think he genuinely wanted the west to leave him to get on with sorting out the mess left by Stalinism.

Khrushchev used the time from about '56 to '61 to build up the soviet armed forces, crush resistance in Poland and Hungary, build the Berlin wall and start to build missile bases in Cuba.

America meanwhile attacked communists at home (McCarthy), conducted a propaganda war against Russia, sent over spy planes and improved its ability to deliver bigger nuclear weapons.

Kennedy used the term "peaceful co-existence" when trying to rebuild the relationship with the Soviet Union after the missile crisis. Possibly a way of helping Khrushchev save face after he backed down over Cuba.

Answer 5

O.K. First of all, I was a Navy Corpsman with the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Guantanamo during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviet Union was installing medium-range missiles in Cuba that had the needed range of reaching as far north as Washington, D.C. President Kennedy couldn't tolerate such a threat. So, the armed forces alert status was ramped up and a large fleet of ships were sent to carry out an embargo of all goods heading to Cuba to prevent initial supply and re-supply of those missile sites. Kennedy also demanded the Soviets remove the missiles and even had our UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson show the world the nature of the threat in a meeting of the UN Security Council. After several nervous days, using an American reporter as a "back channel" to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, the Soviets agreed to remove the missiles in return for two things from the U.S.: we would remove similar missiles from Turkey and we would agree not to invade Cuba.
In less than one year, Kennedy was dead. By 1965 the Soviet Politburo had become disenchanted with the saber rattling of the Communist Party's General Secretary, Nikita Sergevich Kruschev, and removed him from power. It wasn't until 1993 (after the collapse of the Soviet Union) that we learned the senior Soviet military commander in Cuba at the time had unilateral launch authority for those missiles and the tactical nuclear missiles ("Frogs") which could be used against invading forces. In short, we were (at one time) about seven minutes away from blowing up the whole damned planet!
If you want more info, let me suggest an excellent book. Its' available from Amazon for less than two bucks in used condition: "The Missiles of October"- Robert Smith Thompson.

Answer 6

The Cuban Missile disaster became into one in all those massive adventure for the human beings by way of fact they had to compromise and make an settlement with the Russians to not invade Cuba as quickly as the Russian missiles have been taken out of Cuba.

Answer 7

The C.I.A. initiated a plan to invade Cuba, they trained and supported Cuban refugees as commandos, when they called for air support from the US navy Precedent Kennedy denied the request and abandoned them. That's why Castro went Communist. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade around Cuba, The Soviets and Kennedy agreed to pull our strategic nuclear missiles out of Turkey and that's what ended it ...

Answer 8

History is made by the victors. Have you heard about that? Khrushchev went to the U.N. chamber to demonstrate against the U.S. He crudely demanded that the U.S. stay out of Cuban affairs. He took off one of his shoes and banged it on the table to emphasis his demands. President Kennedy sent Naval units to blockade the Cuban country. His embargo of products to Cuba is still in effect on some items.
Spartawo...

Answer 9

This would be the perfect thing to use the wonderful internet for. The information superhighway. There must be several thousand websites or web pages on this very topic.

So as you use the internet, why don't you use it properly. Do a search on Yahoo or Google, simply enter Cuban Missile Crisis in the search bar and click on Search.

Because what people are going to do here is exactly that, and then copy and paste it as an answer. Why should they do that for you, when it is good excercise to do it yourself.

And I bet at least answer will have a link to Wikipaedia. Which happens to be the most unreliable information source ever. Do a search and read up on it

EDIT:- Button Monster, there you were telling me why you ask on here and don't research on the internet, because you get all the right info from the people who answer on YA.

Then afterwards you are telling everybody that they are not answering your questions. Guess that makes me right, as I said, do the research on the internet. I have found exactly what you are looking for, in easy to read and understand language.

Answer 10

the US suggested peaceful coexistence b/c to be honest Khrushchev along w/ alot of other soviet rulers were kinda sorta stupid and could never see the big picture (i.e Khrushchev wanted to grow corn in USSR which is impossible but dumped a lot of cash into it)..the significance is it basically dispproved Khrushchev and made him look really bad especially to the soviet people and from the missile crisis it was all down hill for nikita