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The Role Of Events In The Vietnam War

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The event that terrified the world into thinking we were on the brink of a global nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis. This event started on 15 Oct 1962 and continued to escalate until 29 Oct 1962. Of the 14 days the missile crisis occurred, 27 Oct was probably the day when the U.S. came the closest to an all out war. A U-2 pilot shot down over Cuba during a reconnaissance mission sent both countries into a battle of wits trying to negotiate ways out of their current problem. The shooting down of the U-2 pilot was the most tense part of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. At this point the relationship was so poor that each country had their finger on the [BIG RED BUTTON] to end the world. A major event in the Vietnam war was the fall

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