The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

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An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Castro in July 1962 and construction of a number of missile launch facilities started later that summer. Cuba was only 90 ...