1. COLD WAR cuban missile crisis
... political differences between the United States of America (USA) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The struggle was called the Cold War because it did not actually lead to fighting, or a "hot"war. The tensions between the USSR and the USA originated well before the end of the Second World War. It had all begun in 1917 when the Russian Revolution took ... the USA. Kennedy and Khrushchev had agreed that the should discuss ways of reducing the likelihood of nuclear war. The first result of their discussion led them to set up a "hot-line" between the Kremlin and the White House. Later on, in 196...
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