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    Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States In October 1962. Together with the Berlin Blockade, this crisis is seen as one of the most important confrontations of the Cold War. The crisis ended two weeks later On October 28, 1962, when the president of the United States reached an agreement with the Soviets to destroy the missiles in Cuba.

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    Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States In October 1962. Together with the Berlin Blockade, this crisis is seen as one of the most important confrontations of the Cold War. The crisis ended two weeks later On October 28, 1962, when the president of the United States reached an agreement with the Soviets to destroy the missiles in Cuba.

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

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    Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States In October 1962. Together with the Berlin Blockade, this crisis is seen as one of the most important confrontations of the Cold War. The crisis ended two weeks later On October 28, 1962, when the president of the United States reached an agreement with the Soviets to destroy the missiles in Cuba.

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis (known as The October Crisis in Cuba) was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. In September 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the U.S. to overthrow the communist Cuban regime (Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose), the Cuban and Soviet governments began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles (MRBMs and IRBMs) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States.

    This action followed the 1958 deployment of Thor IRBMs in the UK (Project Emily) and Jupiter IRBMs to Italy and Turkey in 1961 more than 100 U.S.-built missiles having the capability to strike Moscow with nuclear warheads. On October 14, 1962, a United States Air Force U-2 plane on a photoreconnaissance mission captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba.

    Together with the Berlin Blockade, this crisis is seen as one of the most important confrontations of the Cold War. It may have been the moment when the Cold War came closest to a nuclear war. In October 1962, American ships blocked Soviet ships carrying missiles from going into Cuba. The Soviets and Cubans agreed to take away the missiles if America promised not to attack Cuba. America later removed some Jupiter and Thor missiles from Turkey. However, it is not decided if anyone "won". The USSR lost China's support over it.

    JUPITER IRBM

    THOR IRBM

    S-75 DZWINA (USSR)

    The tensions were at their height between October 8 -14 1962. United States reconnaissance saw the missile bases being built in Cuba. The crisis ended two weeks later on October 28, 1962, when the President of the United States John F. Kennedy and the United Nations Secretary-General U. Thant reached an agreement with the Soviets to destroy the missiles in Cuba in exchange for a no-invasion agreement. Khrushchev requested that the Jupiter and Thor missiles in Turkey be removed, and the United States did remove them.

    The reasons that Krushchev wanted to help Cuba were the following: He wanted a Communist state close to United States; He wanted to test the new US president, John F. Kennedy; He wanted a chance to get the American missile sites out of Turkey, which was close to USSR.

    Khrushchev goals in the crisis had various results: A communist country was closer to the United States. Cuba came out of the crisis still a communist country. Kennedy was pushed in the crisis. In the end, his desire for peace was important to ending the crisis. The missile sites in Turkey were removed, but not in the way that Khrushchev had wanted. The United States saw Kennedy as the hero who had fought Communism and won.

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