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Re: What events occured around the time you were born?
from Honeyrose on 07/15/2015 12:37 PMCuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. In response to the Bay of Pigs Invasion and other American actions against Cuba as well as to President Kennedy's build-up in Italy and Turkey of U.S. strategic nuclear forces with first-strike capability aimed at the Soviet Union, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime. In the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to install nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba. When U.S. reconnaissance flights revealed the clandestine construction of missile launching sites, President Kennedy publicly denounced (Oct. 22, 1962) the Soviet actions. He imposed a naval blockade on Cuba and declared that any missile launched from Cuba would warrant a full-scale retaliatory attack by the United States against the Soviet Union. On Oct. 24, Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba turned back, and when Khrushchev agreed (Oct. 28) to withdraw the missiles and dismantle the missile sites, the crisis ended as suddenly as it had begun. The United States ended its blockade on Nov. 20, and by the end of the year the missiles and bombers were removed from Cuba. The United States, in return, pledged not to invade Cuba, and subsequently, in fulfillment of a secret agreement with Khrushchev, removed the ballistic missiles placed in Turkey.
Laurel Hoberg
Re: Which TV show do you like best? New Adventures of Old Christine or Numbers or Prison Break?
from Honeyrose on 07/15/2015 11:19 AMNew Adventures of Old Christine
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Re: Which TV show do you like best? Mentalist or Monk or No Ordinary Family?
from Honeyrose on 07/15/2015 11:13 AMYour Welcome Ang!
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Re: What is the most disgusting food you ever eaten?
from Honeyrose on 07/15/2015 11:12 AMIt is raw herring in a pickled water with spices and vegetables .
Laurel Hoberg
Re: Which TV show do you like best? Mentalist or Monk or No Ordinary Family?
from Honeyrose on 07/15/2015 10:55 AMLaurel Hoberg
Re: Which TV show do you like best? Odd Couple or Perfect Strangers or Quantum Leap?
from Honeyrose on 07/14/2015 01:48 PMNo, I'm afraid they don't show the new Odd Couple here in Sweden .
Laurel Hoberg