GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Why would U.S. leaders not want Soviet Union nuclear missiles placed in Cuba during the Cold War?
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Cuba is too close to the U.S. and any missile fired from there could strike most of the U.S.
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Cuba was a small country and having that much extra weight could sink it
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Cuba was a newly formed country and the U.S. did not want them to get in the middle of it
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Cuba wanted to be friends with the U.S. and the U.S. did not want the Soviet Union to bully them
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the USSR put nuclear missiles on Cuba? To close the missile gap: the Soviet leader, Khrushchev, knew the USA had medium and long-range nuclear missiles aimed at the USSR from bases in Turkey, just on the USSR’s ‘doorstep’.
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