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BRD / DDR / USA: The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962 the world stares in horror, Cuba. American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet missile launchers there, the nuclear warheads. President Kennedy immediately ordered a naval blockade of the island and is determined to take a nuclear war if need be tolerated. The world holds its breath. On 28 October declared the Soviet party and government leader Nikita Khrushchev finally agreed to the nuclear missile to withdraw from Cuba.

with the Cuban missile crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War reached its climax at the same time also a turning point. The direct confrontation of the two superpowers in the Cuban missile crisis is on both sides of the growing realization that a nuclear war prevented under all circumstances and disarmament measures should be initiated. To improve communication between the two world powers, is installed after the Cuban missile crisis in June 1963 a "hot line" (a direct telex connection) between the White House in Washington and the Kremlin in Moscow.

refrain superpowers from now on to direct military confrontation. Their interests are focused on the areas of the globe, which are distributed is not clear between East and West. In Indochina enter the U.S. in the Vietnam War, the Soviet Union has problems on its border with China and needs to rest in the West. The world is looking less and less in the 60s to Germany and Berlin. This also means that the policy towards Germany is increasingly becoming a matter for the Germans themselves.