Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis : Occurred in 1962. The US discovered that the USSR was installing medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, only miles from the coast of Florida. When US President Kennedy imposed a naval blockade, a thirteen-day stand-off ensued in which the world came very close to nuclear: tar. Kennedy and Soviet leader Khrushchev eventually reached a compromise that allowed the Soviets to 'save face' and the Americans to remove the missiles. It inaugurated a period of detente between the superpowers
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