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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The entire world watched with bated breath to see if this moment was the tipping point for World War III.
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.
The name was derived from then Cuban President Fidel Castro by spelling his surname backwards.. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, upon discovery of SS-4 missiles being assembled in Cuba, the U.S. Government considered several options including a blockade (an act of war under international law, so it was called a "quarantine"), an airstrike, or a military strike against the Cuban missile positions.
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 ...
JFK picks 3 to negotiate Cuban crisis President Kennedy set up a special three-man committee today to handle negotiations looking toward an end to the Cuban crisis.