The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the USA and Soviet Union ever came to nuclear war. A US spy plane took photographs of Russian missiles in Cuba. Cuba is 90 miles off the coast of Florida. President Kennedy told Nikita Krushchev, the Russian Prime Minister to remove the missiles. Krushchev refused to do so. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba - nothing in or out. In response, The Soviet Navy headed towards Cuba to take on the US Navy. Kennedy left the blockade in place,. Krushchev backed down and had the Soviet ships return to the Soviet Union. Dean Rusk, the American Secretary of State stated"We are eyeball to eyeball with the enemy and he just blinked." The way Kennedy handled this crisis led historians to believe it was Kennedy's finest hour. The Soviets removed the missiles from Cuba and as a show of good faith, Kennedy had American missiles removed from Turkey.
A lot of it was that they did not want to be the one European country without land in the Americas, another was for power and resources.
NAVO to oppress the communism growing in the world.
Manifest destiny is the belief that the united states had to stretch from Coast to coast. The belief is what caused the westward expansion. Many Indians were kicked off of their land due to the settlers migrating into their lands. many Americans were receptive to the idea of the Manifest Destiny and believed it was their 'divine obligation' to extend the lands of the United States of America.
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Several peoples and civilizations existed before the Incas in present-day Peru. Some of them are the Norte Chico Civilization, the Chavin Culture, the Nasca people, the Moche, the Wari, the Tinawaku and Lambayeque , the Chimu and the Chinchas.
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