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Cuban Missile Crisis
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1962 confrontation between the US and USSR
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: ΠšΠ°Ρ€ΠΈΠ±ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ 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 and Turkey were...

Instance of
political crisis
Conflict (process)
Part of
Cold War
Location
Cuba
Caribbean Sea
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