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Cuban Missile Crisis
(1962)
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The Cuban Missile Crisis (16–28 October 1962), during the presidency of John F. Kennedy, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. Ultimately, this nuclear scare led to compromises by both sides and no such weapons were ever fired in hostility during the crisis.
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Information retrieved from: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
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