HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Bay of Pigs
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Berlin Airlift
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Russian Missile Crisis
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Detailed explanation-1: -Despite the short time frame, the Cuban Missile Crisis remains a defining moment in American national security and nuclear war preparation. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale conflict, nuclear war.
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. Cuba was an ally of USSR. It received financial and diplomatic help from USSR.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although Kennedy had the option of launching air strikes against the missile construction sites, he decided to come into terms with Khrushchev that would see the Soviets remove the missiles in exchange that the U.S. would not invade the Island. Unmistakably, the U.S. won by giving in to Khrushchev’s demands.