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    American intelligence gathered from U.S. spy planes provided photographic evidence of the presence of Soviet missiles and missile silo construction in Cuba. A nuclear arsenal on the island nation less than 150 kilometers (approximately 93 miles) from Florida potentially posed a major security threat to the United States. Based on U.S. knowledge during the crisis‚ the Soviet missiles on the island could have targeted the American Southeast as well as much of the Eastern seaboard. President Kennedy

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    Introduction The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 nearly led to a global nuclear war‚ with the two most powerful nations‚ United States and Soviet Union entangled in a standoff. The Soviet Union‚ under Premier Nikita Khrushchev had secretly deployed medium range ballistic missiles and intermediate range ballistic missiles to Cuba with Cuban leader Fidel Castro ’s consent. The missiles which posed a direct threat to U.S cities‚ military installations and the general population were intended to

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    Although the Cuban Missile Crisis was a period of immense stress and fear throughout the world‚ it inspired some media and entertainment we see today. The British spy film‚ Goldfinger‚ was made to reflect the shape of the world and the Cold War after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Goldfinger was one of the most highly acclaimed spy or James Bond films of all time‚ and fortifies the confusion between communism and organized crime that appeared many times during films in the 1950s. Goldfinger replaced

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 is undeniably a major confrontation of the Cold War. Lasting for 13 days it is arguably the pinnacle of the Cold War. This crisis was a decisive factor in the United States’ (US) decision process of whether to engage in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (USSR). However the essential fault of both state leaders (J. Kennedy and N. Khrushchev) which created the inevitable crisis was miscommunication. Today we recognise actions taken by both states during the crisis

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    Khrushchev had very complicated reasons for ordering the Cuban missiles onto the island. First of all‚ gathering nuclear weaponries could effectively boost the Soviet Union’s power‚ while in the same time‚ this action could threaten the U.S. with nuclear attack from the Caribbean. Khrushchev had gathered indisputable evidence that the U.S. held an overwhelming advantage over the Soviets in deliverable nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union felt uneasy and threatened as America’s strategic superiority

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    countries at the time almost started World War III over missiles that were secretly placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union. The nuclear war could have started just seventeen years after the end of World War II‚ and with ten times more firepower than any other conflict because there were many advancements with nuclear missiles. Luckily‚ an agreement was later made and the missiles were taken out of Cuba with no harm done. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen day period where the people of the United

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    nuclear war. These were the days where even more fear coursed through the hearts and souls of the United States’ citizens. There were missiles in Cuba that were pointed at the United States of America that created conflict because the USSR could not find a reasonable way to compromise with the United States about their already positioned missiles without adding missiles under the USSR’s control into the game. The United States of America’s president John F. Kennedy hated the idea of a new world war

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    I: The Start. A: A look at the Missile Crisis in 1962. 1: Part the United States took place in. 2: Role the USSR took a part of. B: Statement: There was confusion between The Cuban Missile Crisis and the USSR including the United States. But out of all‚ there was only one man who knew how to treat this situation peacefully and calms which were John F. Kennedy. II: Paragraphs that support one another and have related points. A. This essay must include a well-described paragraph about the Cold War

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    On October 16th‚ 1962‚ both the United States and the Soviet Union partook in a thirteen-day impasse concerning the construction of nuclear missile sites located in Cuba‚ merely 90 miles away from the coast of Florida‚ known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Realizing exactly how close this installation was‚ President Kennedy and the Executive Community‚ a group of fifteen members meant to advise the president and commonly recognized as Excomm‚ convened for the next twelve days in hopes to solve the dilemma

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    The Realist Perspective on the Cuban Missile Crisis In October of 1962‚ the United States and the Soviet Union reached a near-nuclear experience when in a short fourteen days; Russia was caught building nuclear missile bases in Cuba. With the Second World War just barely in the past‚ the United States was still on their toes making sure they were in the clear. When they sent the U-2 spy plane to monitor Cuba they found missile bases that were armed and ready to wipe out the western hemisphere

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