HIST 304 Lecture 11: Hist 304 11

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 304
• Professor: Lorenz Martin Luthi

Document Summary

Cuba: one of the most dangerous crises in the cold war; stands in about the middle, ends the hot war phase and starts the negotiation phase. The cuban revolution: american protectorate since 1898, in the spanish american war; they worked with fulgencio. First in 1959, and in 1960 there was a soviet cuban oil agreement to replace the oil the. Soviet world it thinks it"s ideologically the leader of the soviet camp. It"s clear that this cuban soviet rapprochement was not to the liking of the us; in 1960. Eisenhower authorised all kinds of clandestine operations against castro (the bay of pigs that. From sputnik to the end of the missile bluff, 1957-61: nuclear weapons; late 1957 sputnik shock; there was a fear in america because the soviet. Union had the capabilities to send nuclear weapons into space: as a reaction the us used the u2 flights, and developed nasa.