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The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most pressured filled moments in the history of the United States. Furthermore, the actins that took place that day would have not have just effected the United States and the Soviet Union but the entire war. The U.S. and Soviet Union the resident two superpowers of the time were on the verge of all out nuclear war. That potential war would have murdered tens of thousands of people within the first couple days. Furthermore, the nuclear fallout from a war of

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 reflects possibly the most precarious moment in nuclear history. For the first time, the world’s two nuclear super powers, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, were poised to destroy each other in a war of unprecedented proportion. On the brink of what may have escalated into a nuclear war, the leaders of two nations showed courageous restraint and diplomacy to avoid an exchange of brute force and unimaginable desolation. The situation was

Soviet Union placing missiles in Cuba, known today as the Cuban missile crisis. In attempt to avoid nuclear conflict and force the removal of the missiles, Kennedy was faced with three options; to bomb the missile sites and/or conduct both sea and airborne landings, or blockade the island and reassure the removal of the missiles. Kennedy decided to blockade Cuba as it was the only option that would result in the removal of the missiles without it escalating to war. The Cuban missile crisis was the closest

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Missile Scare, was a 2 week period in October of 1962 that was a result of increasing tensions amongst the United States and the Soviet Union. Tension between the US and the USSR is not new and is known as the Cold War, often stated to be a period between 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Intelligence gathered over the span of couple months all seemed to lead to the common conclusion that the Soviet’s are installing offensive nuclear

Identification and Evaluation of Sources “How real was the threat of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis?” That is to say would either country actually have turned the key and pushed the button, sinking the world into nuclear warfare or was the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction too great to have allowed for such catastrophe to occur? All of the sources used were found on the internet but were all found from highly reputable sources. One online source came from the Library of Congress’s

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The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. The crisis was a major confrontation between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The confrontation was caused by the Soviets putting missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States of America. The world was in the hands of President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khruchchev. These two men would have to reach a compromise

Tense and threatening, the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was period of time that forever changed the modern world. The thirteen day confrontation occurred between the United States of America, led by President John F Kennedy and the Soviet Union, lead by Nikita Khrushchev after the discovery of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis was the closest the world had ever come to nuclear war, establishing it as the pinnacle event of the Cold War. Whilst many factors influenced the actions of President

U. S. Government Perspective of the Cuban Missile Crisis MSG Clifton D. Morehouse United States Army Sergeant Major Academy Class 68 CMSgt Gurrola / Mr. Hardy 22 November 2017 U.S. Government Perspective of the Cuban Missile Crisis After the United States failed attempt to invade Cuba and over throw the dictator Fidel Castro during the CIA led “Bay of Pigs in 1961. That failed mission and attempt left the door wide open for the Soviet Union to step in and make a deal as a world super power

Arguably, tensions reached its high point during the Cold War, when Soviet missiles were discovered stationed in Cuba. This event will later be known as the “Cuban Missile Crisis”. The crisis was when the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, came very close to nuclear conflict. In any case, this confrontation could've led to the possibility of the end of Western civilization. The crisis included many miscalculations, secret communications, and misconceptions between the two powers