Cuban Missile Crisis (oct 16, 1962 – oct 28, 1962)
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The climax of the Cold War; a tension between the superpowers. The Cuban Dictator, Fidel Castro, aligned himself with the Soviets, and through a spy plane over Cuba, the US found out that there was a missile being assembled in Cuba. It was then found out that Khrushchev had decided to place these missiles here. This posed a new threat to the US, as Florida was not too far from Cuba, and the US and the Soviet Union confronted other in a battle of nuclear brinkmanship, which means the unwillingness of both sides to back down from war. This standoff eventually ended with a consensus that the Cuban missile based be abandoned in exchange for the decommissioning of their missile bases in Turkey
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