oct 30, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct confrontation between the USSR and the United States. This was caused because Khrushchev was building a relationship with Fidel Castro and began building Missile sites in Cuba. The US didn't want that so they began fighting and this was the closets the two counties got to a full blown nuclear war.

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