THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
MCCARTHYISM AND THE RED SCARE
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The ambassadors from both countries came to an agreement to remove missiles from the countries each were concerned about
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The President and Soviet Premier decided that they would both agree to disagree without fighting
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Kennedy lifted the blockade but Cuba still had missiles on it
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Khrushchev decided to remove missiles from Cuba to get the blockade lifted without talking to the US first, as an act of good faith
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Detailed explanation-1: -The next morning, October 28, Khrushchev issued a public statement that Soviet missiles would be dismantled and removed from Cuba. The crisis was over but the naval quarantine continued until the Soviets agreed to remove their IL–28 bombers from Cuba and, on November 20, 1962, the United States ended its quarantine.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other’s retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation). The two superpowers soon signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground nuclear weapons testing.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.