Title: How did the U.S attempt to stop the spread of communism and influence international security? | andreck04
Headings: How did the U.S attempt to stop the spread of communism and influence international security?
How did the U.S attempt to stop the spread of communism and influence international security?
Content: After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this “quarantine,” as he called it was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. the leaders of both superpowers recognized the devastating possibility of a nuclear war and publicly agreed to a deal in which the Soviets would dismantle the weapon sites in exchange for a pledge from the United States not to invade Cuba. In a separate deal, which remained secret for more than twenty-five years, the United States also agreed to remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey. Although the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba, they escalated the building of their military arsenal; the missile crisis was over” [4]. But also there´s more interventions in America like Granada and Nicaragua trying to destroy every communist root. The reality is that although began as an ideological confrontation, the Cold War was not that cold, because indeed there were clashes between the two sides, but there is something that I find a little coward by the Soviets and Americans and is never faced in their territories but brought chaos and destruction in places like Korea and Vietnam, and at such times as there was the possibility of confrontation near their countries refrained from doing so. In fact, one can say that the United States managed to contain communism but at a high price as it was at the cost of funding of dictatorships and invasions. [1] http://www.marshallfoundation.org/TheMarshallPlan.htm
[2] http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Cuban-Missile-Crisis.aspx
[3] http://history1900s.about.com/od/vietnamwar/a/vietnamwar.htm
[4] http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Cuban-Missile-Crisis.aspx
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