Question

What role did the UN play in this crisis? did UN involvment seem to help or hurt the situation?

Answer 1

The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "A lot of the work was done via back door diplomacy. Through UN as it was mainly clandestine to ensure neither the Americans nor the Russians were 'found out'. The United Nation's involvement seem to more or less help the situation.

Answer 2

The president of the united nations used his UN representative, Adlai Stevenson, to "stick it to them," which refers to the fact that they have exposed the Russians to the rest of the world. the Russians had nuclear missiles in Cuba and the shreds of evidence were given in the form of photographs. Adlai later gave all those evidences to the "court of world opinion." This created a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War.