Why was the United States most to blame for the Cuban Missile Crisis?

The Wikipedia page looks pretty well sourced, and you can just follow those sources you need.

Well I don’t have any site in mind but don’t forget the missiles we had placed in Turkey which gave us a fairly clear shot at all the major Western cities of the Soviet Block including their capital. That in itself acted as a significant factor for the Soviet Union to place missiles in Cuba.

@emeraldisles

“So far all I can think of /research is because of the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion….”

I wouldn’t say that the failure of the BoP invasion was to blame for the Missile Crisis, I’d say the attempt to invade at the BoP was at least partially to blame for it.

The U.S. wasn’t mostly to blame for the Cuban Missile crisis. The blame falls on the Soviet Union for placing the missles in Cuba. Whether they were justified because the U.S. had missiles in Turkey is another question. The Cuban Missile crisis would have happened with or without a BoP.

Well thank you. I am writing my essay with the argument that the US was most to blame which is one of the options.