that the Soviet Union had secretly installed missiles in Cuba, about 90 miles from

Florida. The missiles could have been used to launch nuclear attacks on America.

The crisis was one of the most serious incidents of the Cold War, a period of

intense U.S.-Soviet rivalry that had begun after World War II ended in 1945. Most

people think that the missile crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union

to a really close call to have a nuclear war.

The Soviet Union put the missiles in Cuba earlier in 1962, because the Cuban

officials were 100% sure that America was going to plan an attack on Cuba

because they were allies with the Soviet Union during the C

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