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define cuban missile crisis​

Answer 1

Answer:The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

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Answer 2

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In 1961, at the urging of his joint chiefs, newly elected American President John F. Kennedy sanctioned an invasion to overthrow the Cuban regime and take back the island. ... The invasion failed and left America in a precarious spot, with a communist nation now only 90 miles off of its coast.