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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a perilous 13-day superpower standoff that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war over the clandestine placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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Fidel Castro was the Marxist revolutionary who transformed Cuba into a one-party communist state and, for nearly five decades, defied U.S. power while reshaping every aspect of Cuban society.