The Cuban Missile Crisis : Cold War confrontation /

For thirteen days in October 1962, the United States came closer than it ever had to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. In retaliation for the U.S. placement of missiles near the Soviet border in Europe, the Soviet Union placed missiles on Cuba, a mere ninety miles from U.S. soil. In the thirteen he...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Wagner, Heather Lehr
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Chelsea House, [2011]
Series:	Milestones in American history.
Subjects:	Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 > Juvenile literature. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.