The Miranda v. Arizona case in 1966 was an important case for the US Supreme Court since it established that the rights of the accused were violated when interrogated by the police custody. Miranda was convicted and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court since according to the Fifth Amendment the accused cannot make self-incriminatory confessions. Therefore, the Supreme Court overturned Miranda’s conviction on the basis that his rights protected by the Fifth Amendment had been violated since he signed a written confession admitting the crime when he was under police custody.
During the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union, and it was the closest the two superpowers came to nuclear war.
