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COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In 1962 the USA discovered that the USSR had placed nuclear missiles on the island country of Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of Florida. President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade and promised to stop, search, or sink any ship bound for Cuba. Khrushchev informed Kennedy that such a blockade was illegal and that Soviet ships headed for Cuba would continue on their way and would not allow Americans to search them
A
Bay of Pigs
B
Cuban Missile Crisis
C
Start of the Cold War
D
None of the above
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’.

Detailed explanation-2: -After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this “quarantine, ” as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. He demanded the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cuban missile crisis, (October 1962), major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John F.

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