set up a base for guerrilla hoping
some people join the revolution
the Bay of Pigs
failed
because
how popular castro was
humiliating for the president
Kennedy
they uderestimate the cuban
armed stregth
the strggle of control over cuba was
part of the world wide cold war
in early 1962 the americans placed a number of nuclear
missiles in turkey.within easy range for many USSR
shortly after this Khrushchev decided to place missiles on cuba
Anmerkungen:
that man was the prime secretary of USSR
SOURCES
why the secretaty of USSR placed those missiles
SOURCE A
prime secretary placed missiles to "protect cuba " from
USA ,
sense USA had been trying to restore
the control over Cuba,they didn´t
believe that such a small nacion could
actually mantain for their own.
SOURCE B
the defence minister alert Khrushchev that the
missiles of USA could destroy the cities of Kiev ,Minsk
and Moscow
from that moment the idea of the missiles appeared
CRISIS
the soviets tried to move missiles to the Caribbean secretly
Khruschshev stated in public that they woudn´t
place missiles in cuba that would reach USA
president of USA could demostrate that he was liying
plane flew over Cuba and took pictures of the missiles, this was
informed to president Kennedy ,after that president worked with the
bes of their men to plan how to attack ,this was a very secret manage
what the president decided was to 1. get ready for the invasion
of Cuba ,and second but most important mount a blockade of the
island.
On october 22 a "quarantine " was announced
they said they will stop and search for all
boats bound to Cuba