Cold War - Episode 10: Cuba (1959–1962)

BBC, CNN, Martin Smith, Kenneth Branagh (narrator)

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Title: Cold War - Episode 10: Cuba (1959–1962)
Producer: BBC, CNN, Martin Smith, Kenneth Branagh (narrator)
Category: History, Cold War
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Added: Dec 14th 2010
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10. Cuba (1959–1962) Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising American interests, resulting in the United States imposing an economic boycott, and the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Following the detection of Soviet medium range missiles stationed in Cuba, the United States imposes a blockade on the island, and the Soviet Union mobilises for war. The Cuban Missile Crisis  is eventually resolved through secret negotiations, in which the United States and the USSR agree to withdraw missiles from Cuba and Turkey respectively. Interviewees include Fidel Castro, Walter Cronkite, Pierre Salinger and Theodore Sorensen. The pre-credits scene has interviews of Fidel Castro, Robert MacNamara and Anatoly Dobrynin explaining how close they felt the world was to a nuclear holocaust.

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