The Johnson-Nixon-Castro Years
The Johnson-Nixon-Castro Years
Superpower Containment of Cuba
This essay argues that the United States and the Soviet Union endeavored to thwart attempts by Cuba to become a prominent international actor from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s. They did so because of their mutual fear of dramatic changes in world affairs that were beyond their control and because each feared that what they saw as the adventurism of Cuban foreign policy might impair the prospects of détente. In the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, officials in Moscow and Washington vowed to improve relations in order to avert another possible nuclear showdown. In short, the Soviet Union and the United States tacitly joined forces in the name of détente to contain Cuban efforts to play an influential global role.
Keywords: U.S.-Soviet Union détente, Soviet Union, Fidel Castro, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban foreign policy
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