Cuban missile crisis

¹ Cultural

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 ² Cultural

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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Probably the weirdest reaction to potential carnage was during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Allies’ civilian-directed military won World War II against Japan’s militarized politics, and, as Ms. Schake reminds us, President Kennedy was at odds with his senior military advisers during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and history has vindicated his judgment.

From The Wall Street Journal

The deployment of Soviet nuclear missile sites on the island triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when Washington and Moscow came close to war.

From Barron's

The deployment of Soviet nuclear missile sites on the island triggered the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when Washington and Moscow took the world to the brink of nuclear war.

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Latin American countries have been targeted with blockades in the past, most famously during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when Washington established a "quarantine" to stop the Soviet Union from bringing offensive weapons to its Caribbean ally.

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