The cuban missile crisis
VOC
Upheavals
Stifle
Curtail
Retaliations
Embargo
Hot spot
Outpost
Gird
Warheads
Brinkmanship
Deter
Setback
FACTS
January, 1, 1959 Castro and his guerilleros entered Havana. Batista’s overthrow.
May, 5 1960 U2 spy plane affair
1961 the Berlin’s wall is built
April, 17, 1961, Bay of Pigs
Late in 1961, a member of the Politburo proposed placing missile units in Cuba
August 1962, 42 missiles, were shipped to Cuba
October, 14, 1962, eruption of the crisis because of a U-2 plane missiles photograph
October, 22, 1962, JFK went on television to announce a naval « quarantine » of Cuba and demand removal of Soviet missiles
October, 23, Kennedy’s message forwarded by Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin
October, 26, Krushchev answered that he would remove the missiles if the US ended their blockade and promised never to invade Cuba
October, 28, Moscow announced that the Cuban missile sites would be fully dismantled
MEN
Fidel Castro, Cuban Lawyer who proceeded to turn Cuba into a Marxist-Leninist enclave in the New World
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), president from January, 20, 1961 to November, 22, 1963.
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier
The executive committee (the Ex-com)
Robert Kennedy
Foster Dulles (1888-1959)
IDEAS
Embargo on trade
Communism against capitalism
2 blocs: Kennedy requested « that both sides begin anew the quest for peace ».
Cold war
The containment doctrine
Arms race
Brinkmanship Policy
Escalation of terror
To pull the nuclear trigger
NATO
Cat-and-mouse game
Betrayal
Blackmailing
Striking Power
Edge of the third World War
The civil rights march
Voc
Harsh
Aptly-named
Climax
Facts
1956 non-violent boycott, MLK managed to end segregation on the bus system
August, 28, 1963 Washington DC « The civil rights march »
Martin Luther King shot in april 1968
June, the White House sent a bill to the House that addressed the makor discrimination issues.