Cuban Missile crisis

2026

Give examples of the USA creating an alliance to contain communism

SEATO in South East Asia

CENTO in Central Asia and Middle East

Give examples of the USA using the threat of nuclear weapons to contain communism

August 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Give one reason why the USA disliked Castro’s government

Thousands of Cuban exiles who fled from Cuba to the USA formed powerful pressure groups that demanded action against Castro

How did the USA initially try to contain communism on Cuba?

In 1961 Kennedy put out a plan (initially Eisenhower’s) to send Cuban exiles to invade Cuba under CIA training as they did not want to invade directly. They supplied arms, equipment and transport for 1400 anti-Castro exiles.

In April 1961 the exiles landed at Bay of Pigs and the invasion was a failure.