Cuban Missile Crisis (nov 23, 1960 – feb 3, 1962)
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USSR put Nuclear Missiles in Cuba right off the US southern Coast. US blockade were close to nuclear war.
USSR backed down
"Cuban missile crisis." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1 Nov. 2017. school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Cuban-missile-crisis/610152. Accessed 23 Jan. 2018.
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