How to Understand the Cuban Missile Crisis
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There are numerous references to deeply study that crisis, happened in 1962. This is a brief introduction.
Steps
- Look at the map of the World to spot locations of Cuba with respect to USA and Turkey with respect to former Soviet Union, or roughly today Russia.
- Learn who were John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, and Fidel Castro as the leaders of USA, Soviet Union, and Cuba at the time of crisis.
- Have a look at the meaning of the capitalism and communism and the debate between them.
- Study a couple of pages about the events happened from 1950 to 1960 in Cuba.
- Learn in simple words what is a ballistic missile and its significance when carrying a nuclear weapon.
- Consider that the time between spotting a ballistic missile and its impact with its target is very short and if fired from a nearer place becomes more disastrous in its consequences.
- Borrow its DVD and watch the movie "Doctor Strange Love" featuring Peter Sellers for familiarity with a fictional but almost good simulation of a USA-Soviet encounter.
- Learn about mutual negotiation on removing Soviets missiles from Cuba in exchange of removal of USA missiles from Turkey, that ended crisis peacefully.