The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest that the world has ever come, and hopefully ever will come to nuclear war. It took place in the midst of the Cold War between the United States and the USSR. During this time, the United States had stationed missiles in Turkey, very close to the Soviet Union, making Khrushchev and his associates extremely nervous. Fidel Castro, dictator of Cuba, was nervous as well. …showed first 75 words of 2089 total…

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