Cuban Missile Crisis
Task 1:
Explain how Russia and America came close to direct military confrontation with
each other in 1962 and how the crisis was averted.
America came so close to direct military confrontation in 1962 for a number of
reasons, a few of which are described below.
Russia and America had two different ideologies, communism and democracy. The
communists believed that the whole world would eventually revolutionise and
become communist and that it was their duty to speed up …
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…the following day he received
another letter which now asked for a trade off between American missiles in Turkey
and those in Cuba. On this same day Cubans shot down an American spy plane as it
flew over Cuba. As the tension mounted again Robert Kennedy advised his brother to
reply to the first letter and ignore the second one. President Kruschev accepted these
terms and the crisis was at last over and war averted.
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