Latin+America+(1950-1989)

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a clash between the Soviet Union, The United States and Cuba. The Soviet Union built a nuclear missile base in Cuba because they didn't have long range missiles, and the short range missiles that they had were pointed at the United States. America feared the spread of the Soviets communist ideas, and for a latin country to ally with the USSR was not taken too lightly and it had also invaded the Monroe Doctrine. In 1961 President John F. Kennedy set Operation Mongoose in motion. Operation Mongoose was an agressive covert operation against the communists government of Fidel Castro in Cuba. It was a secret mission set up to remove Fidel Castro. This was not very successful. In September 1962, the Cuban Government saw evidence of a pending invasion from the United States. The U.S. Congressional resolution authorised the use of military force if needed. This was called Operation Ortsac. Castro and Nikita Khrushchev believed that if the U.S. invaded Cuba, it would cause a problem. They thought the only way to solve a problem like that would be to use nuclear missiles. Khrushchev said he wanted to confront the United States with more than just words, he wanted to use missiles. The tensions was high on October 8, 1962. On October 14, United States reconnaisance saw the missile bases being built in Cuba. The crisis ended two weeks later on October 28, 1962, when President John F. Kennedy and the U.N.'s Secretary-General U Thant reached an agreement with the Soviets to dismantle the missiles in Cuba in exchange for a non invasion agreement. Khrushchev requested that the missiles in Turkey be removed, but the United States didn't really remove them, and his request was ignored by the Kennedy's administration. Kennedy ordered intensified surveillance, and cited cooperation from the foreign ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS). Kennedy "directed the Armed Forces to prepare for any eventualities; and I trust that in the interest of both the Cuban people and the Soviet technicians at the sites, the hazards to all concerned of continuing the threat will be recognised." He called for emergency meetings of the OAS and United Nations Security Council to deal with the matter.