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Cold War PropagandaThe Cold War never presented any real threat on America. It was nothing more than thepropaganda of two battling super powers. The two super powers involved in the Cold Warwere The United States of America and The Soviet Union. The two countries were constantlybattling over who is the most powerful on the planet. The supposed threats were meretechniques of propaganda used to scare the other countries public into believing theywere more powerful. Over and over again the U.S would flex it's muscles and then TheSoviet Union would flex it's muscles until eventually one country couldn't. The Cold Warlasted a very long time and it was fought through battles such as the Korean War andVietnam. Each battle split the country and the U.S would take a side and The Soviet Unionwould take a side and they would use the country as a battle ground. This was the onlyactual fighting that occurred. The Cuban missile crisis was an important event that took place during the cold war. Inthe Cuban missile crisis, America was fearing that The Soviet Union had certain missileinstalations in Cuba . The U.S found out about these missile installments from satelliteimagery that showed the missiles being transported to Cuba and show the missile sitesinside Cuba. With Castro's approval, the Soviet Union began building secret missile basesin Cuba. On October 16, President Kennedy was shown photographs of the missileinstallations in Cuba. (Rawnsley, 7) On the surface one would get scared by somethinglike this and that is exactly what The Soviet Union wanted to happen. The whole Cold warwas propaganda so by scaring the U.S into thinking they had missiles in Cuba gave themthe edge on the war. If The Soviet Union wanted to bomb the U.S they could have easilysnuck the missiles in and hidden them. They knew about the satellites and purposelyexposed the missiles. A naval blockade was imposedosed on Cuba to stop the constructionof the sites. On October 26, Krushchev sent a letter to Kennedy suggesting that the siteswould be dismantled if the United States gave its reassurance that it would not invadeCuba. (Whitton, 22) America's true leaders knew that this was never truly a threat to theU.S but to humor the citizens they did something about it. If the U.S did nothing thecitizens would get scared, even more so. The Soviets had a good strategy in using Cuba against the United States and there idea toget the missiles found worked out perfectly for them.

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