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1962 US compels Soviet Union to withdraw nuclear weapons from cuba in what has become known as the Cuban missile crisis

Reason why the US put their nuclear missiles in turkey.

Who were the main leaders during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

And who won the crisis battle?

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Uddrag
In October 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis took place, and it was a dangerous confrontation between the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.

In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.

He demanded the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites.

President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles.