Cuban Missile Crisis

              During the Cold War, Cuba was abandoned by the U.S. due to the harsh leadership of Fidel Castro. All connections were dropped between the two countries. This left Cuba in a desperate situation. Cuba's top buyer of their number 1 export, which was sugar at the time, was the US. Cuba's economy replied greatly on the US. So when this happened, Cuba decided to turn to Russia for help. Russia agreed to give Cuba oil and buy their sugar at a guaranteed price if they would allow them to build a military base on their island to spy on the US. Cuba quickly agreed. Things were working out quite well until Russia decided to plant nuclear missiles that were cable of destroying 75% of the US, in the military base.

                

              US president John F. Kennedy was immediately notified and pleaded with the Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles. Nikita refused at first stating the fact that the US had nuclear missiles planted in Turkey which were capable of destroying all of Russia. However, after many American protests, and please from JFK, Nikita decided that he would remove the missiles from Cuba as long as the US promised never to invade Cuba.         

       

           - Was the abandonment of Cuba justified?   

             Personally, I think that it was wrong for the US to leave Cuba in such a hard situation just because their leader ruled with an iron fist. They could have simply come to a compromise with Fidel Castro so that the people would not have to suffer from the financial devastation. Many ways could have been thought of. In my opinion, the US sort of jumped to conclusions.