Contemporary era · 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre), or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский 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 the United Kingdom, Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in…
- When
- 14 Oct 1962 – 28 Oct 1962
- Where
- Cuba
- Era
- Contemporary
Topics
People
Che Guevara1928 – 1967Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
Fidel Castro1926 – 2016Cuban politician, author and revolutionary (1926–2016)
Before and after
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