Help! How did the Cuban Missile Crisis lead to the collapse of the USSR?

Answer 1

The Cuban Missile Crisis had very little impact if any on the collapse of the USSR. The collapse of the USSR occurred primarily because of events in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the last years of the Soviet Union. The then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was desperate to preserve the Soviet Union and thus agreed to work with democracies like the US and the UK to make the Soviet Union more democratic. Some members of the Communist government wanted to prevent this campaign for democracy (known back then as the Perestroika), but other members of the Soviet government supported him and Boris Yeltsin, and the plot finally collapsed after Yeltsin quickly condemned the plot. Gorbachev resigned from his position in late 1991, and under Yeltsin the Soviet Union was finally dissolved.

Answer 2

Well considering that the two events were over 20 years apart it would be hard to forge even a tenuous link with the two events. Are you sure that you have your question right?

The best thing that I could come up with is the fact that the Cuban missile crisis deepened even further the entrenched views of the two super powers - but it was the action of the Russian people which ultimately brought about the fall of the USSR, not America or her foreign policies.

ps - mustardc Cuban crisis 1962 - wall came down 1989

Answer 3

the 2 are not technically linked.

the Cuban missile crisis, gave the soviets more power.

it was the signing of the cold war treaty by Reagan and Gorbachev (spelling?) that sealed the fate for the old soviet union, which effectively died in 1989 when the Berlin wall was knocked over and "iron curtain" was lifted.

Answer 4

It was during the Cuban Missile Crisis where the doctrine of the sleeping Soviet Union lulling The West into a state of complacency and rising to crush The West by surprise. Something to think about, or maybe not...

Answer 5

I thought it was the collapse of the Berlin wall that lead to the collapse of the USSR!

Answer 6

It didn't, simple as that (and by the way, they were 30-40 years apart not 20).