Cuban Missile Crisis Began Long Before
These Men had to Deal with its Realities
The title, Truman and the Cuban Missile Crisis, may puzzle those few readers who think they know their history; however, the reality is that Truman initiated the events that caused this and nearly every subsequent crisis in American foreign policy. In my two previous posts, Pathway to American Impoverishment and International Manifest Destiny Rise and Fall, we discussed the beginnings of the Truman Doctrine, Marshal Plan and the United Nations as organs to extend both the Democratic Party’s and America’s power domestically and abroad. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a result of these policies, sans the United Nations (UN), and the addition of one other ingredient: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).