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The Cuban Missile Crisis - Lecture Slides | HIST 330, Study notes of World History

Material Type: Notes; Professor: Knoblauch; Class: HIST THROUGH FILM; Subject: History (HIST); University: Ohio University; Term: Fall 2009;

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Week 5 – The Cuban Missile Crisis
Week 5 – Study Guide
Terms:
Cuban Missile Crisis Mutually Assured Destruction
John F. Kennedy Technocrat
Nikita Khrushchev Limited Test Ban Treaty
Fidel Castro Poltava
Che Guevara U-2
Robert S. McNamara Robert Kennedy
William Castle Guantanamo Bay
Monroe Doctrine Bay of Pigs
Operation Mongoose Missile Gap
Jupiter Missiles Adlai Stevenson
Questions to Consider:
1. Why would Khrushchev want to have Soviet Missiles in Cuba? (there
are many rationales)
2. John Goodman’s character in Matinee resembles William Castle.
Who is William Castle and why is he important in U.S. Atomic
Culture?
3. Who were the “Best and the Brightest”?
4. Amundson and Zeman make a clear distinction between a period of
HIGH ATOMIC CULTURE and LATE ATOMIC CULTURE. When is
this break? Why did they choose this year?
XTC – Living Through Another
Cuba
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Week 5 – The Cuban Missile Crisis

Week 5 – Study Guide

Terms: Cuban Missile Crisis Mutually Assured Destruction John F. Kennedy Technocrat Nikita Khrushchev Limited Test Ban Treaty Fidel Castro Poltava Che Guevara U- Robert S. McNamara Robert Kennedy William Castle Guantanamo Bay Monroe Doctrine Bay of Pigs Operation Mongoose Missile Gap Jupiter Missiles Adlai Stevenson

Questions to Consider:

  1. Why would Khrushchev want to have Soviet Missiles in Cuba? (there are many rationales)
  2. John Goodman’s character in Matinee resembles William Castle. Who is William Castle and why is he important in U.S. Atomic Culture?
  3. Who were the “Best and the Brightest”?
  4. Amundson and Zeman make a clear distinction between a period of HIGH ATOMIC CULTURE and LATE ATOMIC CULTURE. When is this break? Why did they choose this year?

XTC – Living Through Another Cuba

Week 5 – The Cuban Missile Crisis

I. From Ike to Kennedy

Kennedy wins over VP Nixon, in part, from a

platform touting a “Missile Gap”

Kennedy must deal with Soviet Premier Nikita

Khrushchev

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev

  • Soviet Premier from 1953 to 1964,
  • **A bold contrast to Joseph Stalin, Khrushchev initiated a series of steps towards DE-STALINZATION
  • Wants more (not total) freedom of the arts; Alexander Solzhenitsyn is perhaps the best example
  • Khrushchev had many domestic failures, but he aimed to improve the Soviet standard of living with more missiles and less conventional forces**

Some of the Best and the Brightest

Robert Kennedy

Attorney General

Robert S.

McNamara

Sec. of Defense

McGeorge Bundy

National Security

Adviser

Members of JFKs cabinet would remain well into

LBJs presidency

Two Events Shaped Kennedy’s Cold War agenda

The first is the BERLIN CRISIS

II. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS - Background

U.S.-Cuban Relations: a Brief History

John Quincy Adams, author of the Monroe Doctrine

Americans have long held that the Western Hemisphere was their sphere of domination.

THE MONROE DOCTRINE (1823):

  • Europe had no place in foreign affairs in this hemisphere.
    • America had right to police this hemisphere

In particular, Cuba was in American imperial designs;

JQ Adams: Cuba is “an object of transcendent importance to the political and commercial interests of our Union.”

Fidel Castro

Castro and Che Guevara

Castro is born in 1926;

A Lawyer by training

In 1955, he and his brother RAUL travel to Mexico; they are looking for support to begin a Guerrilla war for independence in Cuba

They meet the Argentine freelance revolutionary ERNESTO GUEVARA, or “Che Guevara”

JFK and Robert Kennedy attempt to assassinate Castro with no luck

  • They attempt a total coup
  • Bay of Pigs invasion
  • Train & equip Cuban exiles in Central America; Cuba
  • drop men into southern coast; they are surrounded; JFK refuses to offer American air-support

THE BAY OF PIGS is a total failure

William Castle

William Castle is the inspiration for John Goodman’s character

Castle used gimmicks to bring in bigger crowds -1958s Macabe: audience members had a life insurance policy taken out

  • 1969 House on Haunted Hill : skeletons dropped from the ceiling
  • 1960 Thirteen Ghosts : In 3-D
  • These latter two films have recently been remade

III. The Cuban Missile Crisis, Detection and Blockade

Week 5 – Study Guide

Terms: Cuban Missile Crisis Mutually Assured Destruction John F. Kennedy Technocrat Nikita Khrushchev Limited Test Ban Treaty Fidel Castro Poltava Che Guevara U- Robert S. McNamara Robert Kennedy William Castle Guantanamo Bay Monroe Doctrine Bay of Pigs Operation Mongoose Missile Gap Jupiter Missiles Adlai Stevenson

Questions to Consider:

  1. Why would Khrushchev want to have Soviet Missiles in Cuba? (there are many rationales)
  2. John Goodman’s character in Matinee resembles William Castle. Who is William Castle and why is he important in U.S. Atomic Culture?
  3. Who were the “Best and the Brightest”?
  4. Amundson and Zeman make a clear distinction between a period of HIGH ATOMIC CULTURE and LATE ATOMIC CULTURE. When is this break? Why did they choose this year?

Elvis Costello – Waiting on the End of the World

III. The Cuban Missile Crisis, Detection and Blockade

America’s most valuable source of Photo

Reconnaissance, the U-

The U

  • could fly over 60,000 feet
    • Immune to most Soviet anti- aircraft guns and Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs)
    • U-2 could take photographs of high resolution
    • U2 is responsible for detecting nuclear missile deployments in Cuba, but not until October 15th

The U2 receives notorious “bad press” When Francis Gary Powers (left) is shot down over Russian Airspace May 1st, 1960; refuses suicide

Jupiter Missiles in Turkey

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meets Kennedy

in the White House

Kennedy’s Speech to the American People