THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Russian ownership of private property.
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Middle Eastern access to nuclear weapons.
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Eastern European access to western alliances.
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Cuba’s strengthening of its communist government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -For thirteen days in October 1962 the world waited-seemingly on the brink of nuclear war-and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. The confrontation that followed, known as the Cuban missile crisis, brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Cold War, communism was the main concern of the United States. The Soviet Union had a communist economy where most property was owned by the government.