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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLxgeINIBEM

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~ Major Rudolf Anderson was the only US combat casualty

~ U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy (John Kennedy’s brother) personally delivered the message to the Soviet ambassador that ended the crisis

~ Lasted a total of 13 days
~ Led to the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev
~ EXCOMM (Executive Committee of the National Security Council) was created by President Kennedy to deal with the crisis
~ The Soviet operation to place missiles in Cuba was called Operation Anadyr

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Cold War

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Cuba, Caribbean Sea

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October 16, 1962 - the day it began, the US discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba
October 22, 1962 - American citizens were notified of the presence of missiles, President Kennedy issued a naval quarantine of Cuba
October 28, 1962 - the day it ended, Khrushchev issued a statement that all missiles would be removed from Cuba
November 20, 1962 - US ended the its quarantine of Cuba

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John Kennedy was president of the United States.
Nikita Khrushchev was leader of the Soviet Union. These men came to an agreement to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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The threat of a nuclear war was always present during the Cold War, and it just so happened that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world came to a nuclear winter.

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The crisis began when the US spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba being prepared. At the time, Cuba was a close ally of the Soviet Union, so the fact that they were assembling weapons scared the United States. The US made the decision to blockade Cuba to show that they were prepared to use military force to neutralize this threat of national security. Eventually the US agreed to the Soviet Union’s offer to remove the missiles from Cuba as long as the US promised not to invade Cuba and to remove missiles from Turkey and Italy.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest we came to a nuclear war (and the destruction of humanity) during the Cold War.