Cuban missile crisis

A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, placed Soviet military missiles in Cuba, which had come under Soviet influence after the success of the Cuban Revolution three years earlier. President John F. Kennedy of the United States set up a naval blockade of Cuba and insisted that Khrushchev remove the missiles. Khrushchev did so.

A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. The Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, placed Soviet military missiles in Cuba, which had come under Soviet influence since the success of the Cuban Revolution three years earlier. President John F. Kennedy of the United States set up a naval blockade of Cuba and insisted that Khrushchev remove the missiles. Khrushchev did.

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“As the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded, Kennedy was taking many drugs to manage his various ailments,” Tapper and Thompson write.

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LeMay, the more accomplished and visible of the two, rose to become Air Force chief of staff after commanding Strategic Air Command and leading the strategic bombing campaign against Japan in World War II. He was constantly at odds with McNamara, President John F. Kennedy and Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor over the Cuban missile crisis and the war in Vietnam.

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There are TV news segments like the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as personal politics, such as the letters between Johnny Cash and Dylan, that emphasize social change.

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Sylvie had gone away on this art trip, and he was alone in this apartment during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Their tryst starts off explosively: After their first night together, they rise to learn the Cuban missile crisis has thankfully ended.

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