Today we presented cold war projects.
Cuban Missile Crisis
-the US started to build missile bases in Turkey and Italy which could attack the capital of the Soviet Union
-The Cuban Missil Crisis si the name for the soviet union and cuan government responding by building missil bases
-the US began to react when images of missile bases emerged
-JFK then formed EX-COMM which wasa group of people that would think and solve the crisis
-Eventually JFK decided to for a naval blockade to make sure that no missile supplies would get to cuba
-the US demanded that he soviet Union dismantle that bases in exchange of the US agreeing to invade in Cuba
Cuba's involvment
-The US had attemped to invade Cuba in 61 which failed
-Fidel Castro was confident that the US would attempt a second attack
-When Prime minister Nakita Khruchev of the USSR proposed the idea that castro thought it would avoid another invasion
-during october of 62 there was fear of nucliear war breaking out
-the US was ready to attack cuba at any time, becuase nuclear war was so close to happening
Ronald Regans Strategic Defense Initiative
-Initiated an march 23 of 83
-purpose was to develope and anti-ballistic missile system
-this was thought to protect us form missile attacks on other countries, specially the soviet attack
-it was our response to predict nuclear attacks coming from other countries
-some people thought that it was a dumb idea
-what was needed was lots of high-end technology and energy
-the plan was to take the missiles out before they reached thier target
-at the time the plan was too difficult and it failed
-today there is a Agency that is still working on a defense system agianst missiles
-they haved developes the hit and kill system which fires a dummy missile to knock the fired missile off
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