Referat Cuba-Crisis

_Cuba-Crisis

We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.

-Pope John XXIII(1881-1963); October

1961: US-Backed attempts by anti-Castro exiles to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

Castro officially announced that Cuba was a Socialist state.

1962: Cuba is ex

pelled of the OAS

Intensified help of the Sowjet-Union (advisors, arms, technicians)

Installation of nuclear middle-range rockets

Oct.1962: Cuba-Crisis

The USA establish a sea-blockade and prepare aerial warfare

and the invasion of Cuba.

America threatens the Sowjet Union with the total escalation of the conflict to a nuclear war

Results:

The Sowjets redraw their missiles.

The USA redraw their obsolete Jupiter rockets of Turkey