1. How were the United States and the Soviet Union alike during the Cold War? The greatest difference between the two countries was simply that American citizens generally thrived because of free market economic policy, whereas Russians suffered under the inefficiencies of their command economy.
2. In October 1962, the Soviet provision of ballistic missiles to Cuba led to the most dangerous Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
