Why wasn't there a Turkish Missile Crisis? (Short Animated Documentary)

why don't we ever ask the missiles where they want to be based?

USA: Places nukes pointed at USSR USSR: Places nukes pointed at USA USA: Panics

Placing missiles in Cuba was their reaction to the US placing missiles in Turkey and Italy. Kruschev says in his memoirs that they were impressed and scared by how the US panicked due to the cuban situation. To the soviets, the US placed nukes around the USSR; so, the USSR would place nukes around the US. This was just assuring the ballance of power, which was far from being a new concept back then. The US almost invaded Cuba, which would have been a very agressive and messy movement, as it could have easily gone wrong in so many ways.

That always bugged me about my history class. Our teacher told us something along the lines of: "The USSR tried to station nukes in Cuba and thereby risked escalating the cold war to a nuclear armageddon. In order to deescalate the US agreed to withdraw its' missiles from Turkey" Which, you know, kinda weird not to mention that the nukes in Turkey were there first? Edit: Seems the cold war continues in the replies to this comment :)

All I can imagine is Turkey sitting in the corner with a smoothie as the US and the USSR argue whilst Cuba is just like 'Can I have a smoothie too?'

Potentially underrated factor was that USSR leaders came to realize the Cuban leadership was way too eager to attack the US, and the Soviet Union was alarmed at their enthusiasm.

1:19 Cyprus is now rightful Austrian clay.

Fun fact: The US and USSR avoided nuclear war due to the skilful diplomacy of James Bissonette

It's always irked me how this aspect of history was taught here. The US stationing missiles on the Soviets' doorstep was clearly provoking a similar response. In my American history classes, they conveniently glossed over the stationing of nukes in Turkey, and focused instead on the "Soviet provocation". Because clearly, we have to omit details to make ourselves look like the good guys...

Also, another reason that the Americans agreed to remove the missiles from Turkey was that the first Inter-continental ballistic missile submarines had been developed (The first American ICBM submarine, the USS George Washington completed its first cruise in January 1961). This meant that the missiles in Turkey were now not that strategically important, since the Americans would soon have submarine fleets capable of launching missiles in every ocean around the USSR.

Please do videos on the following subjects: 1. Why did the People's Revolution of 1848 fail in the Gernanies and Spain? 2. Why do people drive on different sides of the road in different countries?

I love the added detail of a flash outside Khrushchev's window

Video suggestion: Why is Valga divided? A video about the history of the border between Latvia and Estonia. As a Brit, I was astonished to find out that, somehow, this one was us too, despite Britain never really having too much to do with north eastern Europe.

I love this channel because of all the Easter eggs. 0:50 they painted red stripes to go faster. Love that 40k reference

Video Idea: Why was Khrushchev removed from power? Most of the answers will say it's because of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but after seeing this video, it seems that "USSR had more in 1962, than it did in 1960", so I think it's a pretty interesting and complex question.

Of all the history channels on YouTube, this one is the best. Consistent hilarious history

As Sergej Khrushchev (Nikita's son) said it, those missiles just replaced other threats that the Russians were used to have on their doorstep; French armies or Turkish armies... It wasn't such a big shock to them as having missiles on Cuba was to the Americans.

Nikita Khrushchev:You know if you just remove your missiles out of Turkey, we remove ours from Cuba. John F Kennedy: yeah that sounds good to me. Later* Robert McNamara: Prime minister Castro, this missile crisis has been he last straw. We almost blew ourselves up! Now we invited you here in good faith to sort this thing out

You ask every time if we enjoyed this episode, dude we enjoy EVERY episode.

1:20 I love how Cyprus is now a part of Austria