The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

Moore, Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and ... 24 October 1962, doc. 2 in “The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Submarines and the Risk of Nuclear War,” ed. Thomas ...

The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ...

In 1962 the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis, a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, could end in a nuclear war. It was a two-week battle of wills between ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 exemplifies how deterrence theory and psychological manipulation shaped Cold War diplomacy. The crisis revealed how perceptions of strength, credibility, and resolve ...

In October 1962, Soviet Russia tried to install weapons on an island in the Caribbean, an event that became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis ... elder brothers to war and a road accident ...

It did not then and, since the end of the Cold War, has never threatened to do ... before unanticipated events spark another full blown Cuban Missile Crisis? David H. Rundell is the author of ...

ABILENE, Texas — Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile ... role in that crisis, and he says it wasn't the only time we came close to World War III.

October 27th has marked a significant place in history, witnessing events that have shaped nations, cultures, and societies ...

Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union ... The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most ...

Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union ... The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most ...