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title: "What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?"  
description: "What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?"  
author: "Arnaud Lemaire"  
published: 2026-11-09  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/119857/what-was-the-cuban-missile-crisis  
category: "History"  
tags: ["Cuban Missile Crisis 1962", "Kennedy", "Khrushchev", "nuclear war", "cold war"]  

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# What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?




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