Cuban Missile Crisis and Detente

JFK

U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis who strongly opposed the spread of communism.

Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader who placed nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962.

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Failed invasion of Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis

A tense 13-day conflict between the U.S. and USSR over Soviet missiles in Cuba that nearly caused nuclear war.

Détente

A period in the 1970s when the U.S. and Soviet Union tried to improve relations and reduce tensions.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

The first major U.S.-Soviet treaty limiting nuclear weapons.

Helsinki Accords

An agreement that pledged to respect post-WWII borders and push for more human rights

Leonid Brezhnev

Soviet leader associated with détente and arms control talks.

Fidel Castro

Communist leader of Cuba

Richard Nixon

U.S. president who promoted détente and signed SALT I with the USSR. Involved with Detente.

Ostpolitik

Policy of trying to improve the relationship between East and West Germany