Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962 USA discovered Soviet nuclear bases on Cuba. This was only seventy miles away from the US coastline. It was literally in America’s “back-yard”. It came as a shock to the Americans because Cuba and the US had such close ties so recently and this was going against such ties.
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This source is from a historian named Stephen E. Ambrose. This means that it is a reliable source because history books
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it happening. Khruschev deserves credit for stopping the crisis, as he didn’t lead the situation to war.
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This is an American cartoon showing both Kennedy and Khruschev working together to prevent nuclear war.
Kennedy succeeded getting the missiles off Cuba and avoided war. He was the Savior of the western world. He steered the west through the most dangerous crisis Mankind had seen with a little help from Khruschev and Bobby Kennedy.
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