Cuban missile crisis

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1. A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, placed Soviet military missiles in Cuba, which had come under Soviet influence after the success of the Cuban Revolution three years earlier. President John F. Kennedy of the United States set up a naval blockade of Cuba and insisted that Khrushchev remove the missiles. Khrushchev did so.

Cuban missile crisis

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1. A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. The Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, placed Soviet military missiles in Cuba, which had come under Soviet influence since the success of the Cuban Revolution three years earlier. President John F. Kennedy of the United States set up a naval blockade of Cuba and insisted that Khrushchev remove the missiles. Khrushchev did.

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Rudolf Anderson was the first person to die in the Cuban missile crisis.

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In 2012, fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Vasili’s wife proudly told his story in a documentary titled, fittingly, The Man Who Saved the World.

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His prestige had never fully recovered from the Cuban missile crisis.

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How does the Cuban missile crisis compare with twenty-first-century threats such as terrorism, climate change, and pandemic disease?

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And we are also dealing with a different time when the collective fears were different because of the social and political situation of that era — the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis — was just around the corner.

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