Cuban Missile Crisis
id:
cuban-missile-crisis-186-4623120
title:
Cuban Missile Crisis
text:
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war. In 1961, the US governmen
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
1962 confrontation between the US and USSR
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
date created:
2001-10-17T20:46:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T22:43:20Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q128160","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128160"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Cuban_crisis_map_missile_range.jpg","width":666,"height":662}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16