PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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a clash of post-World War II global powers
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a failure by the United Nations to deal with World War II land claims
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the end of American interest in Latin America
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the beginning of friendlier relations between the United States and China
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The missiles had been placed to protect Cuba from further planned attacks after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
Detailed explanation-2: -It played an important part in Nikita Khrushchev’s fall from power and the Soviet Union’s determination to achieve nuclear parity with the United States. The crisis also marked the closest point that the world had ever come to global nuclear war.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cuban missile crisis was arguably the ‘hottest’ point of the Cold War. It was the closest the world has come to war between the US and USSR, nuclear war and annihilation.
Detailed explanation-4: -The result of the Cuban Missile Crisis was an increasing buildup of nuclear weapons that continued until the end of the Cold War. Air Force General Curtis LeMay was less sanguine because the U.S. had already been limiting its above ground tests while the Soviets had been increasing their own.