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.

Example Sentences

John F. Kennedy’s 1963 address, delivered shortly after the resolution of the Cuban missile crisis and two months before his own assassination, celebrated the signing of the first nuclear test-ban treaty and “a pause in the Cold War,” called for an end to apartheid in South Africa and discrimination in the American South, and proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to the moon.

From Salon

An internet-age version of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?

From BBC

“As the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded, Kennedy was taking many drugs to manage his various ailments,” Tapper and Thompson write.

From Slate

LeMay, the more accomplished and visible of the two, rose to become Air Force chief of staff after commanding Strategic Air Command and leading the strategic bombing campaign against Japan in World War II. He was constantly at odds with McNamara, President John F. Kennedy and Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor over the Cuban missile crisis and the war in Vietnam.

From Salon

There are TV news segments like the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as personal politics, such as the letters between Johnny Cash and Dylan, that emphasize social change.

From Salon