the cuban missile crisis

there was a communist revolution in cuba...

1959 fidel castro overthrew the government of the dictator batista

this worried usa as they had strong economic links

usa cut off diplomatic relations with cuba in 1961

ussr helped him by buying cubas sugar instead of the usas

soviet nuclear  missiles shipped to cuba...

-1961 kennedy ordered an invasion of cuba at bay of pigs

-they were defeated

-castro believed he needed soviet military assistance

-1962 american u-2 spy planes detected soviet missile bases built in cuba

-could be used to…