Cuban missile crisis does not consist only the placement of missiles in Cuba , but also the things before it, Cuba's nationalization of industries ,like the bop, the embargoes , the soviet giving of aid to USSR,Subject: outbreak / origins of the Cuban missile crisisFocus: role of superpower involvementTimeframe : 1959 to 1962Keyterms to note: precipitation of crisisArguments1. Khrushchev was to be blamed as well as kennedy2. Only Khrushchev should be blamedThe personalities of who was to be blamed for the Cuban missile crisis can be traced as one looks at the events in th 1950s which led to Cuba's deteriorating relations with the USA and its subsequent alignment with the USSR, which led to the placement of missiles in Cuba and the consequent tensions that followed. This relations has its origins in the quest for self interest by newly elected leader, Fido Castro, as while as search for national security by both superpowers from the tension passed down from the cold war in Europe ( qualify).
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English: Nikita Kruschev letter to President Kenne...Kennedy's search for national security precipitated the crisis when his search translated into actions that directly went against Cuba and pushed Cuba away from the US and into support of the USSR. Kennedy failed to consider that Castro's intention to establishing diplomatic relations with the USSR was not to antagonize the US or threaten its national security but mostly for economic benefits. ( the US had earlier refused to grant a loan to Cuba and there were continuing disputes over American property in Cuba). This failure to interpret events correctly led US on its intense quest for national security by instituting economic embargoes on Cuba and direct intervention as seen in the Bay of Pigs invasion. However, such actions were needlessly aggressive for its national security was not threatened in the first...