THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS World War II produced two distinct idealogical blocs, the capitalist western bloc and a communist eastern bloc. Both blocs sought to further the interests of its' foreign policies which in turn created hostility and suspicion between the two. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was just one of the results of this hostility. The arms race was the major fuel that sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as differing social systems …showed first 75 words of 4949 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4949 total…up. Looking back at it, if it had not been for Robert Kennedy's conscience and Nikita Krushchev's own restraint, the world could easily have been destroyed. Kennedy said to the US people, "our goal is not to victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, we in this hemisphere, and, we hope around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved."