what are the circumstances leading to the cuban missiles crisis war?

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historical
circumstances that leads to the cuban missiles crisis war

Answer 1

We (the USA) had nuclear tipped missiles in Turkey close to the Soviet Union. The Soviets understandably felt insecure about this. Castro had taken over in Cuba early in 1959 and had fought off the Bay of Pigs USA backed invasion in 1961. Castro needed a strong ally to hold Cuba in case another US backed attack came. The USSR needed a counterbalance to the nuclear threat of US missiles in Turkey.
The USSR / Cuban solution was to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba - 90 miles form Florida during 1962.
The crisis ended when JFK's brother Bobby made a deal to remove US missiles from Turkey if the Soviets would do the same in Cuba. It was a close run thing, but there was no actual Cuban missile crisis war. One US plane was shot down - - a U2 spy plane.

Answer 2

Speed dog is basically right. The Russians were building bases for ICBM's 90 miles from our shore, Kruschev though this was great, they had the American paper tiger by the tail. Hence, walk in John F, Kennedy, he told the Soviet Primer that in no was was there going to be these missiles here and, that was it.
When the Soviet fleet tried to run the embargo a shot was fired across the bow of a missiles carrier of the Russian fleet. They took notice and stood down as six delta winged Navy jets, fully armed passed over them.

The Russians turned around rather then risk WW3 the disassembling started right after that.

Answer 3

I found this in a book from about 1968 "The Cold War as History."

Khrushchev was looking for a way to force the USA to come to terms about how the West was luring people from Eastern Europe to come to West Berlin (not everyone, but specifically the professionals like doctors and engineers as a brain drain against the Socialist Bloc economy). Soviet Union at that time had no direct nuclear threat against USA but only indirectly at Western Europe. The missile bases in Cuba were intended to be used as a bargaining chip in what Khrushchev hoped would be a mass summit to bring about the Peaceful Coexistence he had been touting in the UN (parity in nuclear forces, respect for each others' spheres of influence around the world, etc), but they would only be effective if they actually existed. That was why they building of them needed to be so secret.

Answer 4

Sounds like someones got a paper due. Good luck.