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Cuban Missile Crisis Missiles In Turkey
2,483 wordsCuban Missile Crisis. Cuban Missile Crisis, major confrontation between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) that occurred in 1962 over the issue of Soviet-supplied missile installations in Cuba. Regarded by many as the world's closest approach to nuclear war, the crisis began when the United States discovered that Cuba had secretly installed Soviet missiles able to carry nuclear weapons. The missiles were capable of hitting targets across most of the United State...
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3,844 wordsHistory: Was II: Cuban Missile Crisis Research Paper November 03, 1998 Cuban Missile Crisis Research Paper Overview The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever, and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Soviet missiles wer...
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2,754 wordsHOW CLOSE TO NUCLEAR WAR DID THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS COME? Neither Khrushchev nor Castro seemed to have any fear that missile placement in Cuba would lead to a nuclear war. The U. S. believed that the Soviets were planting nuclear missiles in Cuba as response to American installation in Turkey. The intention of the missiles was protection from invasion of the island by U. S. troops who had supposedly been moved to the eastern U. S. A. U. S. intelligence had estimated that there were 10, 000 Sov...
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