Kennedy before his inauguration he was on a mission to over throw the Cuban leader Castro and lead to a non-communist government friendly environment. But 1’400 exiles landed on the Cuba Bay of Pigs and they were killed or captured. But President Kennedy took full responsibility for this. The Cuban missile crisis had also happened during the cold war. It was when Russia was building missiles to attack on Cuba or in other terms to test them out on them. But JFK had built a naval blockade near Cuba lines where the missiles would interact with them. At the end of this crisis it did leave a little tension between U.S and Soviet …show more content…
It did go into a time of the Vietnam War but that was a whole different story. A man stated that the cold war was “the significance of the cold war was that the United States emerged as the sole superpower in the world and ideology wise, capitalism trumped communism. It shifted from a bipolar world order to a very UN bipolar one with the United States at the helm. This in turn greatly enhanced the prestige and appeal of democracy. Because of this and triumph of a capitalism, many communist states began the transition towards democracy and a capitalist based economy.” (Abdus Samdu