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Cuban Missile Crisis (oct 16, 1962 – oct 28, 1962)

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A crisis where the soviets deployed ICBM's in the newly established Communist Cuba. De-escalated when President John F. Kennedy cut a deal with Chairman Nikita Khrushchev to remove missiles from Turkey if he removed missiles from Cuba

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Date:

oct 16, 1962
oct 28, 1962
~ 12 days