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Cuban Missile Crisis
Title: Cuban Missile Crisis
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1217 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the
world ever came to full-scale nuclear war. When the Soviet
Union placed offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, President
Kennedy interpreted the act as one of hostility that would not
be tolerated. However, the situation was blown way out or
proportion by the president, American media, and ultimately
the citizens of the United States. The Soviet Premier, Nikita
Khrushchev, was …showed first 75 words of 1217 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1217 total…missiles or not to
invade Cuba? The answer is obvious. Khrushchev did not want
war with the United States. He was a vast improvement over
Stalin as a Premier and had restored much freedom to his
country. He wasn’t a mad killer like Stalin and simply wanted
to protect the citizens of his country, unlike Stalin had.
The US government, however, wanted the media and public to
think otherwise. They succeeded.
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