Cuban missile crisis, History, Facts, & Significance

Cuban missile crisis, major confrontation at the height of the Cold War that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of a shooting war in October 1962 over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. The crisis was a defining moment in the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

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Cuban missile crisis, History, Facts, & Significance

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Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia

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