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oct 1, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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- Castro invited Soviets to build underground missile sites that could launch offensive missiles reaching US in minutes
- US planes discovered evidence of construction. - Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade Cuba and remove some US missiles from Turkey.

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Date:

oct 1, 1962
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~ 63 years ago