Cuban Missile Crisis

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• Tragedy and Hope pp. 729-731 · open book

  the Cuban Crisis of October 1962, somewhat like the Fashoda Crisis of 1898, by bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the edge of a war that neither wanted, revealed to both the mutual balance of error and the need to do something about it.

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• Nikita Khrushchev the Soviet leader

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