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Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
English: As the article on the Cuban Missile Crisis describes, both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. considered many possible outcomes of their actions and threats during the crisis. This Game Tree models how the two actors would have considered their decisions.
The entire world watched with bated breath to see if this moment was the tipping point for World War III.
Cuban Missile Crisis: Reconnaissance picture showing the missiles. In February, Lansdale offered a comprehensive review of all Operation Mongoose activities to date. His tone was urgent, stating that "time is running against us. The Cuban people feel helpless and are losing hope fast. They need symbols of inside resistance and of outside ...
Articles pertaining to the Cuban Missile Crisis, a 1 month, 4 day (16 October – 20 November 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.
In mid-1962 the DRE passed on early reports of missiles being stationed in Cuba to its CIA connections, not long before the presence of missile was confirmed by U-2 photographs and the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Afterwards, the DRE claimed some missiles had been hidden in caves, a claim the CIA discredited.
In the wake of the Cuban missile crisis the Soviet Union removed the planes from Cuba. This photo was published in The Miami Herald December 7, 1962. 10/25/1962: Navy destroyers at dockside in Key ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear Armageddon. School kids in Florida were taught to hide under their metal desks to protect themselves from a ...