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Essay / Unilateral decision: the naval blockade of Cuba
Unilateral decision: the naval blockade of CubaThe naval blockade of Cuba was a retaliation against John F. Kennedy who discovered that the Soviet Union had created secret nuclear missiles on Cuba. It is October 22, 1962; the State of the Union is not at peace. The United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the so-called Cold War, which lasted from 1945 to 1991. The war led to an international crisis with alliances, naval battles and the Soviet Union, our greatest threat. The country's peace did not exist at that time, as the naval blockade, which was put in place because John F. Kennedy discovered that the Soviet Union was manufacturing missiles and storing them on Cuban territory ( Crisp 1), this occurs almost twenty years after the start of the Cold War. So the war led to unrest with the Americans, who were all afraid that massive retaliation would occur, the massive retaliation being a nuclear bomb, but that was not the only fear Americans had from the war. There have also been few altercations with alliances, bombardment of US-owned warships. At the time of the Cuban naval blockade, the United States was at war with the Soviet Union, a war that had already existed for almost twenty years. The war already had the United States and all its citizens on the edge of their seats. The rise of nuclear weapons was relevant and a high fear factor for everyone. Communism was both an international and national crisis. The United States was afraid of their country becoming communist and they wanted to prevent it from spreading across the world, because the United States was predominantly Democratic and Republican and they feared takeover by other countries or even by their own states trying to take power. . (Anticom... middle of article... May 1, 2014. Chrisp, Peter. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Milwaukee, WI: World Almanac Library, 2002. Print. “Cuban Missile Crisis.” - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. Web. April 20, 2014. "Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)." Web. April 20, 2014. "History." The Cuban Missile Crisis, nd Web April 20, 2014. "JFK Announces Blockade of Cuba." Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis is a Risky Precedent." - Harvard Np, nd Web. Loreta M. The Cuban Missile Crisis in San Diego, 2002. "Prologue: Selected Articles." April 21.. 2014.