COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
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The Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba that could be used against the U.S.
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The U.S. placed missiles in Cuba to be used again the Soviet Union
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The US announced it would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the weapons already in Cuba be dismantled and returned to the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-4: -The emergency was resolved peacefully after Kennedy ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba-a blockade under a less bellicose name-and then made a deal with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev: Soviet missiles out of Cuba and U.S. nuclear missiles out of Italy and Turkey.