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This Day in History –On October 22nd, 1962, Cuban Missile Crisis began.


Cozy relations between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev caused world wide anxiety as President Kennedy orders [-----1-----] to stop Soviet ships transporting nuclear [-----2-----] to Cuba. In a TV address, JFK displays aerial photographs of [-----3-----], which [-----4-----]. UN ambassador Adlai Stevenson then isolates demands withdrawal of all nuclear installations in Cuba. Global tension mounts before an agreement is signed in which Khrushchev reluctantly complies with Kennedy's demands. Within weeks, the missiles are [-----5-----] and shipped back to Russia, as storm clouds of nuclear disaster fade from the Cold War horizon.
a naval blockade armaments missile silos he terms a clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace dismantled