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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion , the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to install ballistic missiles in Cuba. When U.S. reconnaissance flights revealed the clandestine construction of missile launching sites, President Kennedy publicly denounced (Oct. 22, 1962) the Soviet actions. He imposed a naval blockade on Cuba and declared that any missile launched from Cuba would warrant a full-scale retaliator... Read more

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Cuban Missile Crisis █ LARRY GILMAN The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was triggered by...war than during the 13 days of the Cuban missile crisis (Oct. 14 – Oct. 28, 1962... Read more

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Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962...x2010;capable missiles in Cuba.Fidel Castro's radical Cuban government...Soviet–Cuban affairs. On...during the crisis, Khrushchev...x201D; Soviet missiles if the United...exploring the missile‐swap...October, the ... Read more

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	Frankel, Max: High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.(Book Review) ; ...Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis New York: Ballantine Books...clear-eyed reassessment of the Cuban Missile Crisis. With High Noon in the Cold...implies, Frankel portrays the Cuban Missile Crisis as a political showdown between... Read more
	Florida: front-line state in 1962: Mark Weisenmiller explains how, forty years ago, the `Sunshine State' played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Cross Current). ; THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS of forty years...atmosphere of the Missile Crisis, Governor Farris...economy. During the Crisis one woman called...developments of the Crisis. Hard as it may...government during the Crisis was one of preventive...the Russian-made missiles. ... Read more
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