Cold War

CAUSES:

Bay of Pigs failure, 1961. 

Raul visited by Khrushchev in Cuba, July 1962, with developments of medium range nuclear missiles.

16-17 Oct - U2 planes capture photos of missiles with 1600km capabilities. 

EVENTS:

22 Oct - Blockade. 

26 Oct - Khrushchev says he'll remove missiles if blockade ends, but then a discussion between Moscow ambassador Georgi Kornienko ad Warren Woods revealed there would be no invasion, and so on 27th Khrushchev wrote a letter requesting removal of Jupiter missiles in Turkey. Kennedy accepts terms of first letter. 

RESULTS: 

Test ban treaty with 77 signatures by September 1963. 

Moscow to Washington hotline. 

Jeremy Suri says that the USSR's failure to keep weapons led to agreements between Allies and smoother relations.

Kosygin replaces Khrushchev in 1964. 

Buys Cuba's sugar, making them a liability of $4.5billion in the 1980s.

Failure of July 1963 summit.

SUEZ CRISIS

Colonel Nasser, Egypt's leader, had good relations with the USSR, and allies put him to heel in July 1956 by refusing to give their loan for Aswan Dam. He turned to the USSR for finance and to nationalise the Suez Canal, owned by an Anglo-French company, to make more money from passing ships. 

This gave Allies an excuse to topple him. Britain and France saw a threat to their colonial influence, while Israel saw them as a threat to their new state, and wanted control of more territory, the Sinai Peninsula. On 16 October 1956, they created a plan for invading, with Israeli troops invading through the Sinai, leading to the British and French sending 80,000 under the 1954 Anglo-Egyptian Agreement. When Israel attacked on 29 Oct, they ordered both sides remove troops, and when Nasser refused, they bombed airfields on 31 Oct. 

The US criticised this in the UN, with Eisenhower refusing to help their…