POLS 368 Lecture Notes - Cuban Missile Crisis, Roger Hilsman
9 Feb 2013
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Soviets may have been thought to be friendlier Whether the soviets were ahead or not (we know they weren"t), it certainly wasn"t the case that the u. s. was seeing weakness. Telling revolutionaries to seek a peaceful path to socialism is completely stupid. Mao said imperialists aren"t going to lay their butcher knives down and become buddhists. In response, the soviets attacked china"s closest "friend," albania. The u. s. did not see a split in the communist movement. They probably would have had a better outcome if they knew the chinese and soviets were bickering. The cuban missile crisis was another reason the u. s. may not have trusted soviets. Took place in october 1962 and was the closest the world got to nuclear war. Took place against the backdrop of growing tensions between the u. s. and the. The presidential election in 1960 had a greater emphasis on foreign policy. Cuba had been an area of concern ever since castro overthrew the.
