Cuban missile crisis
- Created by: elle1999
- Created on: 05-02-16 09:33
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- Cuban missile crisis 1962
- Arms race- USA develop first bomb
- Detterence and MAD
- 1961 both superpowers had missiles pointed at each other
- MAD
- Neither side would strike if they knew attack would destroy itself.
- Castro comes into power in 1959
- January 1962, USA breaks off relations with Cuba
- Bay of pigs
- Exiles sent in to kill Castro were then killed
- May 1962, USSR announces they are supplying Cuba with arms
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