The Cuban Missile Crisis In The 1960's

The Cuban Missile Crisis represents a change in the 1960’s because of its long term effect on our relationship with Cuba, as well as Russia. Regardless of all John F. Kennedy's attempts to achieve peace and preserve our relationship, this had resulted in the complete shutdown of trade between the U.S. and Cuba up until January 2015. The U.S. was forced to remove offensive missiles in Turkey and has further tainted our relationship with Russia.
This was an event that was ignited by post World War Two and the growth of communism. In that fact the relationship between the United States and the Soviets was not the best. During the fight over communism, we invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. This was a failed military invasion that lasted three days and angered Cuba. The Soviets saw this as
Robert Kennedy told the ambassador that the U.S. was planning on removing the missiles from Turkey anyway and that we would take them up on their deal. A few guidelines to this agreement were: the U.S. removing the missiles from Turkey was not to be made public. The quarantine was to stay in place until the Russian bombers were also removed from Cuba land. In case something like this were to happen again the a phone which was a direct link from POTUS to the Kremlin in was nicknamed the “hotline”, it was put in place so miscommunication was no longer a factor. This was the event that also led to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The Cuban Missile Crisis still stands to be the single closest event to ever bring us to the brink of nuclear war. It was put into place to avoid anything like this from ever happening again. This event has had major effects to our tainted relationship with Russia and had nearly destroyed our relationship with Cuba until January 2015. This is why I believe the Cuban Missile Crisis represents change in the