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jan 1, 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

Description:

- Intense American hostility to nearby Communist outpost prompted Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev to deploy nuclear-tipped Soviet missiles to America
- Soviets removed missiles from Cuba in return for an American promise not to invade the island

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Date:

jan 1, 1962
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~ 63 years ago