1) ariel spying over Cuba produced pictures that showed missile silos being built in Cuba. The design of the silos made it clear they were designed for missiles, and it made no sense for Cuba to put in anything less than nuclear missiles there. Missiles they could not build themselves, so had to come from the Soviet Union.
2) Only minutes. A launch from the Soviet Union to the US only takes about 20 minutes. Depending on the range of the missiles put into the silos, warning time would have been anywhere from 3-10 minutes. Not enough time to verify that it was a launch, and not a detection system malfunction, forcing America to launch immediately, or risk losing its capacity to strike back.
3) A direct attack or invasion of Cuba would have forced the Soviet Union to respond in kind. The USSR simply could not abandon Cuba, without losing all credibility among its allies and vassal states. So they would likely have struck back at the US, probably in Europe. This would have dangerously escalated the tensions, and increased the probability of nuclear war. Other officials believed that a quick,determined strike would not only eliminate the immediate threat of missiles in Cuba, but possibly overthrow the regime and force the USSR to accept the situation. The idea of a naval blockade was a compromise position. A threat of force, but one that allowed the USSR to back off. After all, so long as the missiles were not put into the silos, they were no threat.
<span>After World War II, the Marshall Plan helped countries in Western Europe with rebuilding their economies--since almost every country in Europe at this time had been devastated by the war. </span>
The period 600 CE to 1450 CE is characterized by the opening of important trade routes between the world known then: Europe, Asia and Africa mainly. The intensification of trade implied a spread of languages, culture (religion) and customs of different peoples. With trade, products and diseases were also exchanged that made the revision of local beliefs and traditions necessary and permanent. To reconfigure the forces of power in those times, innovation was important and in many cases the adoption of religious systems or institutions was a good start for the reorganization of declining societies that should flourish after the fall of the great world empires.
Jews were the most hated because they were a part of the holocaust
