When Russia placed the missiles on Cuba it was warned that they needed to be removed and when they weren't action was taken by enacting a blockade of the island. This was part of the policy of containment by the United States not to allow Russia to influence the development of a communist country within the sphere of influence of the US.
Initial action was a blockade: the USA placed a naval quarantine around Cuba to stop further weapons from being conveyed to the island.
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Russia sent missiles to Cuba because Cuba was already in a conflict where the U.S had attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro. Russia took advantage of Fidel's anger and sent the missiles to Cuba in which Cuba threatened to use them against the U.S
No. Cuba itself never had nuclear missiles although the USSR set up nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba.
Oh, dude, containment during the Cold War? Yeah, like, it kinda worked, I guess. I mean, it wasn't perfect, but it did help prevent the spread of communism, so that's something. Like, it's not like they totally aced it, but hey, they did what they could, right?
The United States further extended its containment policy in Latin american. Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba
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obviously not, because all the countries we fought in during the Cold War are still communist: Vietnam Cambodia Laos N. Korea China Cuba
Castro is a communist and took over Cuba by revolution. Cuba is in our sphere of influence and under the policy of containment and making the world safe for democracy he was just too close to American shores. It didn't help that he aligned himself with Russia and made a deal to get Russian missiles in Cuba. When the missiles went in the US responded and boycotted Cuba when the Russians refused to remove them. Today the Russians still have a lot of influence with Castro and his brother.
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There is communism in only Five Nations today, China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea and Laos.
The policy has eased in the past years. Americans are still not allowed to travel to Cuba, but Americans who have immediate family in Cuba are allowed to visit. most of the reason that the us government hates Cuba is because they are a communist nation, and they have a dictator, which America highly disapproves of. Hope this helps :)
Very simple he was a communist 90 miles from the Florida coast. This was the period of containment.
the united states placed a trade embargo on Cuba
He recommended "Containment", which remained the official US policy until after the Vietnam war. Its end was also influenced by the fact that it then also transpired that the 'Domino theory" of the USA was incorrect, which held that if one nation fell to Communism, all its neighbors were bound to follow. They didn't. The Containment policy held that Communism should remain contained within the areas where it was dominant around 1949; and that any effort of Communist countries or forces to expand beyond those areas should be forcibly repulsed by the USA. This policy led to US involvement in Cuba (the Bay of Pigs-disaster and the missile crisis), in the Korean war and in the Vietnam war.
The US used a naval embargo to prevent any missiles or related material from reaching Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs incident took place at the south coast of Cuba. This action was accomplished in 1961 when Fidel Castro took power in Cuba.