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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
The Cuban Missle Crisis was the USSR's response to the US putting mid-range nuclear missles in Turkey. If the US could put Nukes on USSR's doorstep, the USSR wanted to be able to do the same; and after the Bay of Pigs, Castro was ammenable to anything that would provide additional protection from the US.
1961 was an eventful year.
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So it could be said that Kennedy created the crisis but, also reacted well
to it when it came along.