Cuban Missile Crisis: Difference between revisions

The Soviet government determined in [[1959]] that any future war would be largely nuclear, and in that same year the [[Strategic Rocket Forces]] were founded. The Soviet government became increasingly militaristic in the face of [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]]'s rearmament program. In response, the Soviets decided to install nuclear weapons in [[Cuba]], a Caribbean nation off the coast of Florida whose government had become [[Communism|Communist]] as a result of the [[Cuban Revolution]] that brought [[Fidel Castro]] to power; Cuba's government sought Soviet support after the collapse of its relations with the US due to the expropriation of US properties in Cuba and a subsequent [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]-backed attempt of invasion of Cuba known as the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]]. Soviet reasoning was two-fold -- first, to defend this new Communist state from American or American-sponsored invasion, and second, to shift the nuclear balance of power away from the US.