It caused a lot of distrust in the US government.
It also affected the US election of 1976. No one trust Republicans, so Jimmy Carter was elected president.
<span>b. spice
</span><span> The product that was commonly traded along the Silk Road were spices. Spices were produced in countries far away from Europe and they were very expensive, both because the production was limited and because the trip to collect them was dangerous. The Silk Road linked Asia and Europe via land for many centuries before the age of Discoveries. </span>
The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.