2. How did the Cuban missile crisis develop?
In 1962, Khrushchev made the decision to put intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) into Cuba. The crisis that then developed between the US and the USSR lasted 13 days. You have already seen the context for this crisis in terms of the US' response to the Cuban Revolution. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev claimed that the weapons were put in Cuba for defensive reasons and to prevents another 'Bay of Pigs'...