Cuban Missile Crisis 4
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The world will never be the same since October of 1962. It is now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S.
learned that the Soviets were building nuclear missile bases on Cuba because the Soviets wanted to close the missile
gap. Even though the Soviet Union promised they would not attempt to p ....
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.... that close to our own shores. Kennedy was probably cautious about strikes because of the Bay of
Pigs invasion which had failed so miserably just a year before. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt by the U.S.
to remove Castro from office. We armed and trained about 2000 Cuban exiles for this job. The hope was that a
general uprising would begin, and Castro would be removed from office by his own people and not by any United
States personnel. What cost the success of the mission ....
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