WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
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Chinese Civil War
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Detailed explanation-1: -On October 16, President Kennedy notified Attorney General Robert Kennedy that he was convinced the Soviets were placing missiles in Cuba and it was a legitimate threat. This made the threat of nuclear destruction by two world superpowers a reality.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kennedy called for the Soviet Union to dismantle and withdraw its missiles from Cuba. Soviet Premier Khrushchev refused. The U.S. enacted a naval “quarantine” around Cuba, intercepting all Cuban-bound Soviet ships and turning away those thought to be or confirmed to be carrying weaponry.
Detailed explanation-4: -U.S. officials estimated that a nuclear exchange with the Soviets in 1962 would have killed 5 million Americans and 100 million Soviet citizens–a reflection of the huge lead the U.S. had, and would keep, throughout the arms race.