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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Occurred in October 1962, when the US discovered that the Soviet Union was building medium-range ballistic missile sites in Cuba. It strained Europe's relations with the US in several ways. First, the Soviet Union had offered to dismantle the Cuban missile sites if the US would pull its missiles out of Turkey. While the US chose to ignore this offer, it did eventually (after the crisis was over) pull its missiles out of Turkey.

Despite the US's insistence that this was not a deal with the Soviet Union, many Europeans were concerned that this indicated a lack of dedication to the defence of Europe on the US's part. Secondly, although the US and Europe were theoretically equals, the US acted almost unilaterally, consulting only Britain. 

Links

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0814197.html

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