History GCSE
The Cuban Missile Crisis
What The Cuban Missile Crisis means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of The Cuban Missile Crisis
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A Cold War confrontation of 1962 within the period 1954–1975, named as an example of a confrontation between the superpowers.
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