He powder keg of Europe<span>, sometimes alternately </span>known<span> as the </span>Balkan powder keg<span>, refers to the </span>Balkans<span> in the early part of the 20th century preceding World War I.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most tense parts of the Cold War and was going to lead to world nuclear war of conflicts got any tender because there were very dangerous weapons facing the Us only a short distance away in Cuba.