Cuban missile crisis- Consequences

Question 1

What did the USA gain from the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 1

• Nuclear missiles were removed from Cuba.

- Kennedy was no longer seen as weak and inexperienced.

Question 2

What did the USSR gain from the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 2

• Cuba remained a Communist country, eventhough it was

only 90 miles from the USA.

Question 3

What did the USA lose from the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 3

• No longer having missiles in Turkey (This angered some

of their NATO allies).

Question 4

What did the USSR lose from the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 4

• The USSR was publicly seen to have backed down (This
  as a result, angered many Soviet politicians).
• Krushchev was removed from office (as the military felt
  that they had been forced into a humiliating withdrawal).

Question 5

When was Krushchev removed from office?

Answer 5

1964, as the military felt that they had been forced into a humiliating withdrawal of missiles in Cuba because of Krushchev.

Question 6

What did the World gain from the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 6

• A direct hot line phone link was set up between
  Washington and Moscow.
• A nuclear test ban was set up in 1963.

Question 7

What did Cuba gain from the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 7

• Cuba’s independence had been secured (free from US
  interference) .
• However Castro felt like a pawn in a very high stakes
  game which could have seen the destruction of this
  Island.