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Summary Evidence of Containment & Brinkmanship in the Cold War
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IEB History. Details moments within the Cold War in which concepts like containment and brinkmanship are prominent.
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Evidences of Cold War ConceptsBrinkmanship in The Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs The Installa?on The Ship Blockade The Cuban Krushchev’s LeDers
Invasion
• US invasion of • Following the • Kennedy • In order to • By the 26th of
Cuba Bay of Pigs, the established a achieve fill October,
orchestrated USSR assisted shipping security for the Kennedy
by CIA-trained Cuba in blockade to USA, an received a
Cuban exiles installing both prevent Soviet invasion of leKer from
convenBonal ships, that Cuba was Krushchev in
and nuclear were carrying suggested which he
weapons nuclear arms, agreed to
from reaching remove the
Cuba missiles from
Cuba if the
USA, in turn,
chose not to
invade Cuba
• Kennedy chose • Although • Following the • This invasion • Krushchev
to adopt, Krushchev release of would be further
falling vicBm to claimed it was images taken orchestrated exercised the
the for Cuba’s by a U2 spy with the pracBce of
“Commitment defence, it, in plane, Kennedy objecBve of brinkmanship
Trap” many ways, was compelled destroying the in his second
appeared as an to announce missile bases leKer by
offensive the blockade. demanding
acBon taken He referred to that the USA
against the it as a remove the
USA “quaranBne” their missiles
from Turkey as
well
, Bay of Pigs The Installa?on The Ship Blockade The Cuban Krushchev’s LeDers
Invasion
• The invasion • Krushchev • US submarines • Although it did • Kennedy
failed believed that, were staBoned not ulBmately accepted the
disastrously in establishing at sea, air force occur, it serves demands of
and was greatly these missiles, bombers were as a the first leKer.
humiliaBng for he would on patrol and demonstraBon However, he
US forces balance the thousands of of Kennedy’s secretly
• The USA had threat the soldiers were brinkmanship accepted the
anBcipated an USSR faced placed on as the concept demands of
uprising against from the USA’s combat alertAs of invasion is the second to
Castro as a missile bases, a result of potenBally preserve his
result of the as well as prospecBve violent triumphant
invasion, secure a means nuclear posiBon
however this of leverage destrucBon,
failed to from control in the Soviet
materialise Berlin ships chose to
comply so as
not to
aggravate the
US forces
Containment in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Revolu?on Bay of Pigs The Cuban Project The Shipping The Missile
Blockade Withdrawal
Agreement
• Following the • The US- • “OperaBon • Kennedy • Krushchev and
Cuban orchestrated Mongoose” implemented a Kennedy
RevoluBon led invasion in was iniBated shipping reached an
by naBonalist Cuba that following the blockade that agreement to
Fidel Castro, intended to events of the would, prevent
the USA chose spark uprising Bay of Pigs essenBally, potenBal war
to sever all Bes against Castro prevent arms- • Krushchev
and trade • In many ways, carrying Soviet would remove
relaBons with it failed to ships from the arms from
Cuba materialise and reading Cuba Cuba while
so, ulBmately, Kennedy would
was a great remove his
failure from Turkey
and never take
invasive acBon
against Cuba
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