1962 Missile Crisis: How A Nuclear WW3 Was Narrowly Averted | M.A.D World | Timeline
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- The Cold War: When nuclear weapons kept the entire world on the edge of M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction. As Russia, China and the USA flex their military muscles on the global stage today, ‘M.A.D. World’ takes a close look at the last time we were threatened by the might of world superpowers: The Cold War.
In this episode:
- The world steps to the edge of annihilation as the Soviet Union starts to place nuclear warheads in Cuba. Delicate negotiations between Presidents Kennedy and Krushchev bring the crisis to a peaceful close.
- Vietnam: This small nation far from the Cold War front in Europe rebounds from French colonial oppression with a desire for communism. The USA decides to send in its own troops to stop the spread of communism into SE Asia.
- Czechoslovakia tries out ‘communism with a human face’ by relaxing control of the press, and allowing a limited free the market. This lasts 8 months before soviet tanks arrive overnight and violently crush the new freedoms.
- The USA finally pulls ahead in the Space Race by putting the first human being on the moon. It is a demonstration to the world that the west has cutting edge technology in rocket and missile development.
- The Vietnam War becomes a drawn out and bloody battleground for the US and the USSR, costing millions of lives and billions of dollars.
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You gotta love the hypocrisy of the US, they installed the missiles in Turkey first and then the USSR in turn installed their own in Cuba but the USSR were called "the aggressor".
LOL
Can't be too careful!
Is it true,the USSR is the aggressor,you do not know the USSR or communist russia before,is a war mongering nation, because they have a plan and goal to spread communisim all over the world, that's why they send an agents and communist advicer's all over the world to organized communist revulotion,to make the country that they impeltrated to become a communist country,in reality the USSR or communist russia before,is the real and true imperialists or imperialism, because because they wanted that all the nations in the world was become communist country and USSR or communist russia is their Master or overall leader,it is called Russian satellite....the real imperialism is USSR or communist russia before.....
Would have preferred a whole video on the Cuban missile crisis as the title indicated.
EXACTLY!! What is THIS?! I didn’t tune in to watch a documentary on the Viet Nam war.
Not watching any further. Smh.
Frankly the title has a pretty simple answer. So yeah, doesn’t make much sense that the majority of it is about Vietnam but it would’ve been 12 minutes otherwise.
There are a few Cuban missile vids that are good...one is a vid with Peter Jenkins, ..another is on the history channel...both good..and easily found by hitting the search on utube. Good hunting old boy;
Thanks, will have a look. @@jimkluska253
Thankfully, Kennedy didn't listen to his Generals. We probably wouldn't be here now, if he had.
Correct. See "Fog of War"
Unlike today we had leaders back then that understood reality
I dont think we truly know...just how lucky we are to still be here.
Luck had nothing to do with it.....Think about it ....GODS providence...nothing more
Stop blurring the footage. It's a historical documentary.
blame youtube, it's their lame rules that force them to blur anything that might offend delicate sensibilities....
It's CZcams's fault. It's a company run by idiots
@@mattbriody7575 it's more that they can't be bothered to distinguish between an appropriate use of violent footage and a sensationalist one.
It's incredibly stupid and in cases like this, a real disservice to educational content
@@RobespierreThePoof I stand by my 'CZcams is Lame' comment.
I don't think they have a choice if they want to post on CZcams
Good thing those images were blurred otherwise I might have thought that war was bad...
Thank you so much Rowan. Liberty and Freedom is absolute 💯
I remember 1983 I had just woke up and the local council tested the WWIII siren in a local school near my house, I totally lost it for a few minutes of the most terrifying anxiety I have ever had, this was around the Euromissile crisis so I can understand how it is. I hope we never go to WWIII.🤮🥵😱👃👃👃👃
I listened to the same sirens growing up. But in the 2000s
Now you mention it i havent heard ours in ages
Able Archer
Wow!!! I don't think I could have gone back to sleep that night
The Vietnem War waas the backdrop to my teens and early twenties. TUrn on the TV news and it was 'today in Vietnam
Heat lightening in Massachusetts terrified me in 60’s. Even children knew an awful anxiety.
We as citizens do not want to accept this probability...
Nikita Krushchev: You know if you just remove your missiles out from Turkey, we remove ours from Cuba.
John F Kennedy: Yeah that’s sounds good to me.
World: *Gigantic sigh of relief*
Later*
Robert McNamara: Prime minister Castro, this missile crisis has been the last straw. We almost blew up! Now we invited you here in good faith, to sort this thing out.
Simpleton.
Interesting documentary
Scary stuff to think about. Nukes and living on a razors edge with them.
Smart move from Kruschev, created a situation so the USA removed the missiles from Turkey.
I've always felt alone in saying exactly that. At last!!! Other people aware of BOTH sides of the story. P.S Turkey AND Italy.
It also means that US started it off
@@chadmendoza2000 A game of nuclear chess.... US moved its pawn to check the USSR "king" but was forced by a clever soviet counter move to retreat its threatening pawn.
Early, Kennedy had already ordered their removal and was being stalled by others, Turkey for one!
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 oh brother, study a bit.
YT censorship of wounded Americans in Vietnam in this video is ridiculous.
You have just blown my mind. Amazing information and wealth of information.
I can't watch this because of the unnecessary blurring.
2023: Hold my beer
Please get rid of your sound engineers for their repeated use of a piston-driven aircraft sound for jet engine powered aircraft!!!
I am missing something or they neglected to mention what triggered the crisis in the first place (namely, the Cochinos invasion)?
Well, between our (US) deployment of missiles in central/southern Europe and the failed Cuban invasion the previous year, the Soviets were at least dared to do what they did if not forced to. The US instigated the response.
i remeber diving under the desk very vividly
What I find weird, everyone I know experiences a bunch of glitches, but I don’t, I have experienced a total of 1 glitch in my month of playing the game, and it only happened when playing multiplayer
Excellent doc
Now I can understand why Russia doesn’t want Ukraine as a NATO member (Article 5)
The missiles weren't a problem it was his own
People who assassaninated
Him!
Personally knowing Gen. Lemnitzer, I believe this to be true.
It's the second time I have seen 👀 this wonderful documentary about atomic poker usage between two world superpowers ( USA and USSR)...due to Westerners' perspectives and USA policies services during cold War
Do you know who wins a nuclear wor? No one!
Your mom
JFK was a good man, smart yet bold....
Can you imagine that two men (Two Fu*king men) would of been responsible for the lives of Billions? 😮 I feel as if we’re currently in another Cuban missle Crisis with the tensions with Russia again
@@cootriley6 same as Putin
This was our generation. Grew up during Cold War. I don't make excuses as to why I love my country more than life itself. 46 through 64.
Haha! The ideology you fought against now rules your effin' country.
Murdering and invasion. You sure love evil.
11:18 there is no containment once it starts, because even some Allie’s will launch on each other, do you think Russia would want china as the super power left in the region? Or vice versa, that’s what makes this so extraordinarily dangerous, not to mention countries scattered across the globe, there is not much of the world that wouldn’t be affected, it is an extremely scary thought, this is why the world needs to push for peace, I never understood how countries can hate each other so much they are willing to kill off all living things on this planet, even most of the sea life will pass also, there will be no food, barely any sunlight, we won’t be able to grow any crops, and will be forced to eat bugs, we don’t have any defense set up like huge tunnels for the public, North Korea has tunnels all over the place about 1000 ft deep, although that is for Kim’s personal train, and I wouldn’t wanna be a North Korean caught in one of those tunnels because that will be a bad day for him or her, there’s no reason to hate each other, we are all human at the end of the day so let’s get along so we can all live normally,unless you think life would be better with no food, no clean water, radiation exposure everywhere, and only 30% of population will survive
I remember when that happened people were digging bomb shelters in their backyard we had the duck and cover drill in school and not too long after that happened Kennedy was assassinated it all ties together I joined the Marine corps two weeks after I graduated from high School
some of this music was lifted from a documentary titled "Stasi"
Very well documented! Historical facts on all wars must be open and outlook must be fine blend of traditional, conventional and modern.
The Cuban Missile Crisis had a deep impact on JFK, and caused him to become less Hawkish in dealing with the Soviet Union. Whether this played a part in his assassination or not, we may never know.
His distrust of CIA and the Generals would have kept us out of Vietnam....
@@cootriley6 Perhaps or Perhaps not, we will never know.
Yeah it’s really sad we will never know the real reason jfk was assassinated. But I definitely think it was the CIA. I don’t really believe any other group or agency could of pulled it off and cover it up. Just think of all of the secret projects we found out about. Now think of the ones we will never find out about.
It did not. There's never been any reason to suspect any conspiracy in the assassination, no matter how many fools insist otherwise.
Also, historical records show that the Kremlin reaction to the assassination was an anxious one. It seems they feared the Soviets would be blamed and it could trigger global thermonuclear war. The primary sources have been translated to English and you can read them yourself.
Also, the failure in the Bay of Pigs likely began to push Kennedy to rethink how he would handle the Soviets. But yes, the Cuban Missile Crisis surely had a significant impact. How could it not?
@@cootriley6 I'm not sure about that hypothesis. LBJ is often blamed for Vietnam. However, i suspect it would have happened regardless of who was in the White House. The Cold War was largely self-sustaining.
you should use command & conqured musics.
46:11...Not even involved in the protest. Just bystanders?
' I don't owe you be quite sure you don't owe me. '
Where's the first episode?
Big big thanks 🙏🙏🙏 to timeline 🎉team for the efforts of sharing world history with rare photographs, footage etc.love from India
This is not a Cuban missile crisis documentary
Full screen censor is wild
"you and I ought not pull on the ends of a rope in which you have tied the knot of war. For the more we pull the tighter the knot will be tied. It will then be necessary to cut that knot.
It is not for me to explain to you what that would mean. "
Nikita Khrushchev to Kennedy
Oh, and then we get moustache guy. Who is he?
"If Kennedy hadn't handled it the way he did, we'd have had a nuclear war." Really? So this guy's brilliant assertion of that Kruschev would not have backed down. The trouble with that theory is that Kruschev DID back down. Therefore, we can assume that had Kennedy put his back against the wall sooner, he would have backed down sooner.
We are told, with sincerity and arrogance, that the guy who backed down when we put Destroyers in his face, would have launched nuclear weapons if we had been more direct, and put something else in his face sooner.
It might be better next time if you just let the academics stay home, and let the adults talk.
NO, if anyone blinked it was JFK.
Khrushchev would not remove the missiles unless the U.S. removed their missiles from the Soviet Unions border (Turkey).
Than when they agreed to that, Khrushchev had one more demand. The U.S. would not invade Cuba.
We were already mobilizing to invade Cuba.
JFK agreed to that as well.
Good move......
Maybe another reason the CIA got rid of JFK.
Get an education and face reality, then become mature. You know, an adult. The USA started the Cold War _and_ the Cuban Missile Crisis. And, YES, Kenedy backed down! If not for some major players in the USSR being more diplomatic, patient, and intelligent, especially when dealing with Kennedy, that idiot would have caused a nuclear war.
That assumes that the Soviets didn’t do it intentionally to force the US to withdraw their missiles in n central/southern Europe. They may have never intended for the missiles in Cuba to remain. Just used them to apply pressure on the US.
@@TwilightxKnight13 actually, it does not assume this because it doesn't entertain it. The reason is that our intelligence knew full well that the Soviets were actually way behind us in nuclear capability. It is known today that Kruschev was all hat and no cattle. Kennedy knew full well that the sobiets had no choice but toback down.
Go back a little further to the notorious1960 debate. At that time, Kennedy did not have yet know that the "missile gap was a myth born entirely from Soviet and propaganda, but Nixon (the sitting VP) knew this fill well. But Nixed n could not hammer Kennedy on this ignorance, because what we knew was very highly classified.
Yes, our U2's had completely exposed the Soviet weakness during the Eisenhower asministration and beyond. Hen K nnedy was elected, he was shown this. The Soviets had nowhere near the strength they provided to need to have. They were allowed to bluster as they were, because we needed to keep the capabilities of the U2 quiet.
We all know this now. But Kennedy knew it around 5 minutes after this inauguration.
Rasputin's Shadow
Psalm 55 verses 20 and 21.
Jolly Green Giants
More and more I am beginning to see we did not put any human on the moon ever ......van allen belts
😂
you know protest if you want, but do not fly the colors of the enemy that’s treason, and those people should’ve paid some price
Uh, that is not treason, it is an exercise of the 1st Amendment. Now, as a Vietnam Veteran and someone with both an MPA and a JD, I advise you not to take the Bar Exam yet; you ain't ready.
This UN meeting would never happen in 21st century. Smoking inside is prohibited
32:53 Sign changes? What did I see?
ok Qanon
@@krishuntzeroable lol 😂
1:50 lmao
I can't even get a clear signal to call my mom in Connecticut, but Nixon called the astro-Nuts in 1969? 😂
The enormous deep space radio comms system they built may have helped a bit..
@@mattbriody7575 enormous. 👍 It would have to be...
OH, NOOO! _The earth is flat!_ _The earth is flat!_ _The earth is flat!_
@@philgar7786 oh no, your narrative is losing support... How ever will it sustain itself? 😂🤣
Lots of people waking up to the truth that the "CMC" had TWO sides to the story, of which most in the west only know one side. But when talking of Turkey remember that the "Jupiter" missiles were also based in Italy and were removed from there too.
Those missiles were obsolete.
@@jimkluska253 Yes, while I'm sure the "delivery vehicle" of the Jupiter PGM 19 MRBM were dated as the technology raced ahead, I'm also sure that their 1.4 megaton war heads were STILL as effective and threatening as when they had been sited in Turkey and Italy 4 years before the Cuban missile crisis.
If they hadn't been forced to remove them from Europe they would have in their time been replaced with more upto date rockets, but that wasn't possible after their withdrawal. but regardless of that the whole matter became academic to BOTH sides as the technology progressed to develop longer ranged missiles.
Don't try to wriggle out of it, the US was manoeuvred into withdrawing its forward medium range ballistic missiles, and yet still managed to portray it as "an American victory".
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I think you read into my comment a whole lot more than was actually there,.. don't get me wrong, your comment was really filled,...and what you were able to extrapolate from " those missiles were obsolete " simply was extraordinary to say the least. And wriggling is something I have never done.
Post script, they serve decaf now🥺.......( just a little joke there) take care
@@jimkluska253 My mistake, It was a reasonable perception that your first response attempted to minimise the loss to the US.
The Jupiter missiles in Europe were a "checkmate" move by the US in geopolitics.... the soviet response of furnishing Castro with their own missiles countered the US move and forced an American retraction.
Its a pity you find fulsome responses to be in some way, hyperactive? No matter, likewise best wishes to yourself.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 dude,..u need a Xanax. Really man
I like usa 🇺🇸 ..!!
Long live to usa 🇺🇸..!!^^
美國抓你去改造時我在看你會不會愛美國
Gulf of Tonkin Incident never actually happened, just like the Polish attack on a German radio station in WW2 hours before Germany invaded Poland. American "history" is awful ad inaccurate when held under a magnifying glass.
So true I like how the documentary didn't mention that. Well they say history isn't written by the winners so they should be widely known that was BS cause we got our aces kicked bad in that war
but if those guys in the 60s dint start a nuclear war there will not be a nuclear war in our lifetime
Nagasaki and Hiroshima was the first Nuclear war surely
18:12
I've never heard anyone say napalm like that, wtf
My God he wasn't the youngest. Teddy was
Jack Kenndy?? U mean John F Kenndy
Believe it or not, Jack is another way of saying John.
He was called Jack by many.
@@trainshavewheels never knew that
@@crazygemini82 thanks now i know
Jack Kennedy was his autistic half brother that lived under his desk in the oval office.
CZcams millennials... You are here because these people gave their lives for it. Have an integrity to show it all! You owe it to them!!! History ALWAYS repeats itself... Look at Ukraine today...wake up!
Millennials are indoctrinated
18:53 this guy is a doctor, I don’t know how he is considering he thinks humans can smell each other from over a mile away, that’s a ridiculous thing to say, I doubt you could even smell a cigarette burning from over a mile away
Bet they think twice about war, it's no good for either side
There are no victors in war.
Whats the point of including the clips you heavily blur out to the point it means nothing?
the timing. EMP in space whoever does it first wins, or find peace disarmament
This is the dumbest thing ever said... you gonna suggest nuking a hurricane next?
@Syd McCreath nah not good enough
The Russian that stopped the launch is the greatest hero in the history of the human species.
Yes!
2:48 Jack Kennedy? Lol
Theodore Roosevelt’s still the youngest president
10:55 didn’t the US install Nuclear weapons after the USSR installed Nuclear weapons in Turkey? Wasn’t the original reason the soviets installed nuclear weapons in Cuba was because the unification of West Germany/Berlin and the the attempted invasion by the CIA of Cuba?
“Me siles? 🤦🏼♂️
If Russia wants peace they need to accept the concepts of individual freedom and economic freedom.
Problem solved.
My dad was 82nd airborne during this time said they were on alert!
While I can appreciate wanting to deny the proliferation of nuclear arms, it is INCREDIBLY arrogant and hypocritical the way the US deploys our own nuclear weapons in Europe and Asia and tell other countries they cannot do the same. Example, we placed missiles in Turkey with the clear intention of firing them at the Soviets and when they deployed their own in Cuba, we threatened going to war over it. In the modern, we have missile throughout the world, but we dictate to unallied countries like North Korea and Iran that if they develop nuclear weapons, or even attempt to, we will attack them. By any definition, that is an unprovoked attack and an act of war. Period. I don’t like the idea of Iran developing a nuclear program, but under what authority do we get to dictate to a foreign sovereign nation how they choose to defend themselves? It’s idiotic.
The title was misleading, I thought the whole documentary was going to be about the actual 1962 missile crisis alone, what we're getting instead are just a random collection of historical moments when WW3 could have started during the cold war. This is more like your regular amateur CZcams channel top ten lists, like watchmojo or be amazed not a normal documentary, 😒
My mom was 8 1./2 pregnant with me during the Cuban Missile crisis. She I was going to be born in a bomb shelter
I will not continue to follow this due to the blured pictures. Good ridance.
The Czech invasion took place because because the free Czech economic policies were destroying the currency and banking system.
Never Blur Footage. Teach History in all its ugliest Footage. Never Forget
These docs would be better without the music and sfx
True
@@Livemas-co6kd They would need to write more script though, Too much work. Ha!
No they wouldn't. Its a MODERN world.
@@Eazy-ERyder Why the old fashioned Doc style with a cheesy soundtrack?
**WHY BLURR THE DEAD BODIES!?????**** WE NEED TO BE ALLOWED TO SEE THE HORRIBLE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR ADULTS I MEAN
Ahhh the gulf of Tonkin.. the first successful false flag attack orchestrated by the military industrial complex
Pearl Harbor
Food for thought: Why did America go half-way across the world to fight communism in Vietnam while allowing it to exist 90 miles off our border?
So they could claim they are being attacked whilst being far far away from home thus have an excuse to wage war of course.
Have you ever heard of the Potsdam declarations or the treaty of San Francisco? Negotiations had to be done after ww2 between China and it's neighbors (Philippines and Vietnam). An old dispute which also involved France and the UK. There's like a million different reasons why American ships were patrolling those seas, but yeah they were obviously just sitting there waiting to get stung so later it could be justified it in congress and on national TV.
America never allowed those missile bases to exist to begin with, they just showed up but Kennedy solved it.
The war in Ukraine was never our business. Ukraine and Taiwan we just cant stay out of other nations business.
Where are All the black soldiers? I don’t see them anywhere? So wierd right?
It's the End of the World As We Know It, like the song by R.E.M. (1988)
"Aggresive built up" in Cuba? What's the American military base around the world and misiles american built up in Europe? Disneyland amusement?
Wapakoneta Ohio please stand up
that’s political correctness for you !
Meanwhile the US has Russia & China surrounded w nukes & military bases - imagine if they tried to form a military alliance w Latin America housing nukes in Mexico 🤣🤦🏻♀️🇺🇸🧠🕳️
Compare with the Ukraine 🇺🇦 crisis right now
it's almost the exact opposite.......JFK said : get rid of those weapons....hero. Putin said : get rid of those weapons.....madman
Fun fact.
Nikita Khruschev was a Governor of Ukraine before he became the Supreme Ruler of entire Soviet Union.
And once again it is Ukraine pushing world towards nuclear Armageddon.
Also it was Khruschev who annexed Crimea from Russia and assigned it to his home state of Ukraine.
QUESTION: WHY WAS THE USSR AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO EUROPE AND AMERICA IN 1945 AND SUPPOSEDLY NOT A THREAT TO GERMANY IN 1941? AND WHY DID AMERICA HELP THE USSR ENSLAVE HALF OF EUROPE?
one simple word: POLITICS, as it suited the USA. That's why the Japanese Emperor NEVER was -dragged - to Nuremberg.
Because the USA needed and alley in the Far East. History was and is not what we, the - unwashed masses - will be shown...
The perspective of a new conflict on European soil maybe ?
Try to read some history books. The Soviets had the dream to rule over the whole Europe, under a communist system. They did quite a lot to achieve, I assure you. Not that the USA either wanted influence, but at this time they were still a democracy.
The SU was a tyrannic dictatorship of the communist party, ever asked why so many people tried to escape?
@@meinich5488 i don't need to read books. i am old enough and was around when these things happened. AND books are most of the time written by the winners. and they always see their - good side -only.
Read some books and watch extensive documentaries so you get an understanding of the world war 2. CZcams comments shouldn't be your teacher.
Blurred images. Politely FU
It's the early 1960's sonny, get a life for god's sake. LOL
yeah our government knew qe had more nukes thanrussia us hadnore firepower and a logistics advantage but for whatever reason we were too scared of russia after cuba
Stop conflating Russia with the Soviet Union.
@@tellmemoreplease9231 Well to be fair the USSR WAS "Russo-centric".
We lost 58000 men and women who died for Nothing
58000 men no women on the frontline
Our troops died for Freedom's cause.
If not for the Vietnam War Communism would had spread as far south as Australia.
@@bone3594 You not noticed Ron? The globalists have imported "world communism 2.0" to Australia and the west already.
No American women died. Millions of Vietnamese men and women however did die.
People are so used to saying “men and women” that they apply it to every situation regardless of circumstance.
So by the USA putting nuclear missiles in Turkey, didn’t they start this nuclear threat.
The definition of hypocrisy, USA leave ICBMs in UK = OK. Russia leaves ICBMs in Cuba = Bad. I mean the irony
This factual video is of great significance in relation to present war of provocation and reckless expansion of hegemony. If Cuba crisis can mutually de-escalate so can Ukraine crisis.
President Putin is best ever and will always be! Most amazing and strong leader!
Following the example of the GREATEST nation in the world, the US, is an action to which by now the world should be accustomed.
@@sydmccreath4554you 12?
US is a warmonger
The GREATEST country in the world
Anglo-Americans won't rest until the rest of the world dances to their tune.
Their bloodlust is insatiable.
Propaganda. JFK made agreement w Kruschev if they pulled the missles out of Cuba wed pull our Pershing missles out of Turkey. Out of the entire cabinet JFK offered diplomacy all others wanted to inade Cuba if we had there would have ben war.with USSR.