Homework Help is Here – Start Your Trial Now!
Social Science
History
How does this document demonstrate the American policy of containment? Based on this map, tell the story of the 'Cuban Missile Crisis.' How does this event demonstrate the US policy of containment?

How does this document demonstrate the American policy of containment? Based on this map, tell the story of the 'Cuban Missile Crisis.' How does this event demonstrate the US policy of containment?

icon
Related questions
Question
  1. How does this document demonstrate the American policy of containment?
  2. Based on this map, tell the story of the 'Cuban Missile Crisis.'
  3. How does this event demonstrate the US policy of containment?
  4.  
Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline 20 M January 1959: Cuba becomes communist under Fidel Castro. April 1961: Bay of Pigs invasion with US support fails. Castro remains in power. UNITED STATES May1962: Soviets secretly begin shipping 40,000 troops, 60 mišsiles and 158 nuclear warheads to com- munist Cuba. ATLANTIC OCEAN October 15, 1962: US spy planes find evidence of medium range nuclear missile sites being rapidly installed in Cuba. Havana October 23: US announces a L00mila quarantine against ships carrying offensive weapons to Cuba. CUBA 2 DOMICAN HAF Oct. 24: Numerous Soviet transport ships stop dead in water just out- side the quarantine line. Bay ef Mesloe MMAICA MEXICO Oct 25: Soviet SS-4 nuclear missiles become operational. SALVADO AA Car Oct. 28: Soviets begin to remove missiles, crisis is avoided. TA VENEZUELA PANAMA April 1963: In a quiet agreement PACIFIC OCEAN COLOMBIA with Soviets, US removés missiles from Turkey. Us quarention Rangef leietiile Sovit miile and je bomber beses
Transcribed Image Text:Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline 20 M January 1959: Cuba becomes communist under Fidel Castro. April 1961: Bay of Pigs invasion with US support fails. Castro remains in power. UNITED STATES May1962: Soviets secretly begin shipping 40,000 troops, 60 mišsiles and 158 nuclear warheads to com- munist Cuba. ATLANTIC OCEAN October 15, 1962: US spy planes find evidence of medium range nuclear missile sites being rapidly installed in Cuba. Havana October 23: US announces a L00mila quarantine against ships carrying offensive weapons to Cuba. CUBA 2 DOMICAN HAF Oct. 24: Numerous Soviet transport ships stop dead in water just out- side the quarantine line. Bay ef Mesloe MMAICA MEXICO Oct 25: Soviet SS-4 nuclear missiles become operational. SALVADO AA Car Oct. 28: Soviets begin to remove missiles, crisis is avoided. TA VENEZUELA PANAMA April 1963: In a quiet agreement PACIFIC OCEAN COLOMBIA with Soviets, US removés missiles from Turkey. Us quarention Rangef leietiile Sovit miile and je bomber beses
Source: Map created from various sources. 2 American forces occupying Japan after wwil are sent to defend South CHINA Communist North Korea (supported by the Soviet Union) invades US-supported South Korea. The attack comes without warning and President Harry Truman, with the help of the United Nations, vows to defend democratic South Korea. CHENA NORTH KOREA Korea. The US and United Nations forces are nearly pushed off the Korean peninsula. The American com mander is General Douglass MacArthur. NORTH ROLA ape JOUTH SOUTH SAPAN Juar 10 Sepiember 14. 1960 4 In November ot 1950, communist China enters the war and pushes the UN and ÚS forces back into South Korea CHINA CHINA 3 MacArthur stages a risky, yet suocesstul counterattack at the port of Inchon. North Korean forces are routed and pushed back all the way to the Yalu River, the border of North Korea and communist China. NORTH Se pa NORTH KOREA 5 The war drags on for several years, finaly ending in 1953 very close to the original 1950 borders. The war caused more than two million deaths, SOUTH KOREA souni KORRA Madar including over 50,000 Americans. Armite li IAAN it
Transcribed Image Text:Source: Map created from various sources. 2 American forces occupying Japan after wwil are sent to defend South CHINA Communist North Korea (supported by the Soviet Union) invades US-supported South Korea. The attack comes without warning and President Harry Truman, with the help of the United Nations, vows to defend democratic South Korea. CHENA NORTH KOREA Korea. The US and United Nations forces are nearly pushed off the Korean peninsula. The American com mander is General Douglass MacArthur. NORTH ROLA ape JOUTH SOUTH SAPAN Juar 10 Sepiember 14. 1960 4 In November ot 1950, communist China enters the war and pushes the UN and ÚS forces back into South Korea CHINA CHINA 3 MacArthur stages a risky, yet suocesstul counterattack at the port of Inchon. North Korean forces are routed and pushed back all the way to the Yalu River, the border of North Korea and communist China. NORTH Se pa NORTH KOREA 5 The war drags on for several years, finaly ending in 1953 very close to the original 1950 borders. The war caused more than two million deaths, SOUTH KOREA souni KORRA Madar including over 50,000 Americans. Armite li IAAN it
Expert Solution
trending now

Trending now

This is a popular solution!

steps

Step by step

Solved in 4 steps

SEE SOLUTIONCheck out a sample Q&A here
Blurred answer