Was the Cuban Missile Crisis a Success for Containment?

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Introduction

The Cuban missile crisis was a major test for containment. Containment was the policy that was to try and prevent the USSR from spreading further into the world. The policy first came into action on 12th March 1947 when Truman made a speech. Kennedy later used this in 1962 when he formed a blockade around Cuba so that the USSR could not get its weapons of destruction to it. This was an act of containment because he stopped the USSR getting its weapons to Cuba and it stopped Cuba trading with the USSR so it had totally blocked off all physical contact with its ally. The argument that I am going to argue is that the Cuban missile crisis was a success for containment.

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Arguments For

The Cuban missile crisis was a success for containment because America managed to get the nuclear missiles off of Cuba. This is a success because the USA got the USSR to take the nuclear weapons off of Cuba and secretly took their missiles off of Turkey. Kennedy did this without telling anybody in the USA that he was doing so, therefore the citizens of the USA were total unaware of anything. So in this case containment helped the USA get rid of the threat of having most of their major cities destroyed. Here is a diagram ...

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