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 ...

Today, 50 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cubans recall how their government prepared them for what it insisted was the conflict’s inevitable end: all-out war with the United States.

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis is most commonly conveyed as the ... surrounded by U.S. warships and helicopters, flying the Soviet flag and demanding that the ASW patrol stop their “provocative ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Naval War College Review Vol. 28, No. 3, Winter 1976 THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND SOVIET NAVA... Since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Soviet Navy ...

Protesters chanted "down with the blockade" and "we will never surrender" as they waved Cuban flags. "We are marching ... a few months before the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War.

Skip to content viewer section. Many contradictions emerge from the nine published accounts of the confrontation between the Soviet submarine B-59 and American antisubmarine-warfare units during the ...

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...