Films for the Humanities and Sciences - The Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962

On October 29, 1962, the world breathed a little more easily as the U. S. and the Soviet Union stepped back from the brink. War—everyone assumed nuclear war—had been avoided, at least for the moment. In exploring the events that led up to the crisis, this documentary shows Castro’s rise to power, his economic policies which the Cubans called social justice and expropriated foreigners called thievery, his brand of law and order which was as cruel and unjust as his predecessors’ (though with different victims), and his relationship with the Soviets—whose decision to base nuclear warheads in Cuba led to the crisis. (20 minutes, b&w)

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