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6 days ago · The Cuban missile crisis has been called a time when the world stared down "the gun barrel of nuclear war. " More than forty-five years after the events that brought the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union into near-catastrophic conflict, the crisis remains the most important episode in the complex and contentious history of the Cold War.
- Angela Dresselhaus
- 2014
6 days ago · Perhaps the most critical and dangerous confrontation of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis is chronicled in this collection of more than 15,000 pages of rarely seen documentation from the highest levels of government. Topics include the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, the U.S. secret war against Castro, the first intelligence reports ...
- Angela Dresselhaus
- 2014
1 day ago · The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Recognizing the devastating possibility of a nuclear war, Khrushchev turned his ships back. The Soviets agreed to dismantle the weapon sites and, in exchange, the United States agreed not to invade Cuba.
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4 days ago · Johnson’s campaign capitalized on what Mann describes as an “existential fear” that gripped the United States at the height of the Cold War, particularly in the wake of the 1962 Cuban ...
2 days ago · Bay of Pigs Invasion. Part of the Cold War and the. Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution. Counterattack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces near Playa Girón on 19 April 1961. Date. 17–20 April 1961. Location. Bay of Pigs, southwestern coast of Cuba. 22°03′42″N 81°01′55″W / .
- 17–20 April 1961
- Cuban victory, Failure to topple Castro's government, All surviving rebels captured, Increased cooperation between Cuba and the Soviet Union
5 days ago · Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s radio and television address to the nation regarding the former Soviet Union’s military presence in Cuba. In his speech President Kennedy reports the establishment of offensive missile sites presumably intended to launch a nuclear offensive against Western nations.
4 days ago · [76] The Cuban missile crisis highlighted the deficiencies of both hawkish and dovish approaches in addressing “the possibility that an accidental nuclear war could have occurred during the crisis.” [77] The crisis exposed flaws in the belief that accidental war was virtually impossible. [78]
