Who Was to Blame for the Cuban Missile Crissis

Who was to blame for the Cuban rocket crisis? The U. S had part of this crisis as they overreacted to the particular that the U. S. S. R was importing missiles into Cuba. They make Cuba tense because they tried to concern Cuba twice. The Cubans undeniable and facilitate and the U. S. S. R were there to dish up. If the U. S didnt try to invade Cuba then it wouldnt cause so much tension thence the crisis not happening. Also if they moderatent set up a base in Turkey then this wouldnt bemuse direct the Russians to put missiles in Cuba. Over-reacted to situation and led to escalation of conflict. The U.S wanted to help Cuban exiles to overthrow the Castro government (which was hostile to regular army). CIA under President Eisenhower had sought to help the anti-Castro rebels to overthrow the government. Organised Operation Zapata that was carried out on 17th April 1961. Failed miserably. the States followed this with Operation Mongoose which aimed to destabilise Cuba through a cts of sabotage, sparing state of warfare through embargo on Cuban imports, increasing Cubans diplomatic closing off through its expulsion from the Organisation of Ameri throw out States and simulating military exercises (code named Ortsac) aimed at toppling an fanciful dictator. Edwards, 2002 127-8). America was trying to topple Castro through isolating Cuba, and in doing so, increase the hostility of the Castro regime against the USA and accentuated the fear of invasion, thereby prompting Castro to delve to Moscow for help to refrain Cuba from America. (Because Castro was certain that Cuba could not possibly defend herself against America. ) (Edwards 2002 126, 128) The U. S. S. R is also to blame as they were taking advantage of the position that Cuba was close to the U. S. This creates tension for the U.S as this poses a threat to their trade protection. This act made the U. S feel threatened thus taking action. Should not project gotten involved with Cuba? Feb 1960 Ext ended $100 million worth of credits to Cuba. (Edwards, 2002 125) may 1962 USSR deployed regiments and weapons to Cuba, including nuclear cruise missiles and mid-range b all toldistic missiles that could strike targets in USAs interior. Had stationed 40,000 military personnel in Cuba. This was an indication of frugal expansion into an eye socket that ranked high on Americas defence priority.Sponsorship of Castros regime and subsequent creation of a de-facto military base in Cuba appeared to be a deliberate affront to Americas interior(a) security. Cubas strategic importance to America can be likened to Polands importance to USSR. Transporting of military aid (especially missiles) to Cuba thus escalated a crisis between 2 neighbouring countries into a Cold War issue that threatened World peace. Cuba can also be blamed, they got paranoid over the U.S invasion so they employ one of the powerful countries to guarantee its safety. If they werent as paranoid Manipulated super-power a dministration to guarantee security of borders and to legitimise the new Castro regime . E. g. Turned to USSR for economic and military help, so that it would not have to play the role of a submissive little brother to America. Castro Moscow is our brain and our great leader. By using USSR as a counter-weight to USA, Cuba was shrewdly manipulating super-power politics for its own advantage.Castro was aware that Cubas distance from Moscow meant that it would be given a freehanded measure of independence from Moscow, as opposed to the tight leash that it would be kept on had they decided to concede to American superiority. Therefore, the escalation of conflict was to some extent orchestrated by Cuba for her own benefit, as it meant that she would not have to fight the American behemoth on her own, plainly had USSRs backing. Consequences to missile Cuban crisis-) Led to a thaw in USA-USSR relations, as two parties were aware that their rivalry had almost led to an all-out nuclear war (mutually-assured destruction).Establishment of direct hotline from Washington White House to Kremlin to facilitate high level discussion between leaders of the 2 countries so as to help defuse tensions. (20th June 1963)Signing of the nuclear test-ban treaty (June 1963). Both countries agreed to cease atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. But underground testing was still permitted. However, dumbfound note that although the Cuban rocket Crisis ended, US hostility towards Cuban regime continued, even though Kennedy briefly explored the option of negotiating with Castro via unofficial channels.Resumption of Operation Mongoose June 1963. Acts of economic sabotage organised by CIA. Plans to assassinate Castro (Operation Condor) remained in place. Therefore, this shows clearly that it was USSRs involvement that made the conflict between Cuba and USA escalate into the Cuban Missile Crisis in the first place, due to USSRs provision of missiles to Cuba. Without USSRs involvement, i t would have remained a conflict between America and Cuba. USSR, USA and Cuba all had a part to play in the utbreak of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it was USA who first over-reacted to the threat posed by a left regime in Cuba, and had created a self-fulfilling prophecy by taking insupportable pre-emptive strikes such as Operation Zapata and Mongoose that scared Cuba into thinking that her national security was threatened, and thus made her turn to USSR as a strong ally in order to doctor her own security. Thus USA was primarily to blame as she tried to secure her national interest at the expense of other nations, and thus led to the escalation of tensions as nations sought to secure their self-interest by scaring the other into retreat.Had USA not over-reacted, a irenic compromise could have been achieved earlier and the scare that was the Cuban Missile Crisis could have been averted. Moreover, USSRs delving into the conflict was also partly in response to preceding(prenomin al) US stationing of Jupiter missiles in Turkey, which had essentially held USSR at gun-point, thus USSRs conclusiveness to place missiles in Cuba was justified as it was trying to make USA understand the peril of being placed at gun-point. Therefore, I discord with the above statement, as USA, more than USSR was to blame for the outbreak of the Cuban Missile Crisis.