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We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind.
Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing
they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have
disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.
-Pope John XXIII(1881-1963); October 25.1962
1961: US-Backed attempts by anti-Castro exiles to invade Cuba
at the Bay of Pigs.
Castro officially announced that Cuba was a Socialist state.
1962: Cuba is expelled of the OAS
Intensified help of the Sowjet-Union (advisors, arms, technicians)
Installation of nuclear middle-range rockets
Oct.1962: Cuba-Crisis
The USA establish a sea-blockade and prepare aerial warfare
and the invasion of Cuba.
America threatens the Sowjet Union with the total escalation of
the conflict to a nuclear war
Results:
The Sowjets redraw their missiles.
The USA redraw their obsolete Jupiter rockets of Turkey
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