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Cuban Missile CrisisWeek of international tension in October 1962 when the world stood at the brink of nuclear war, after the Soviet Union placed nuclear weapons on Cuba and the United States responded with a blockade of [..]
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Cuban Missile CrisisThe major Cold War confrontation between U.S. and Soviet forces over the deployment of Soviet IRBMs in Cuba in 1962. An American naval blockade and high alert status ensued until the crisis was defuse [..]
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Cuban Missile CrisisWhen U.S. satellite photos showed Soviet missile bases in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba. The tense standoff nearly caused a nuclear war in 1962.
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