TimeGhost History — Season 1, Episode 2: Prologue 2 Cuban Missile Crisis - The Cold War Heats Up
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 2 episodes
Episode synopsis
For 13 days in October 1962 the world came closer to nuclear holocaust than ever before, but the Cuban Missile Crisis didn’t start in Cuba - it had its roots in Berlin, Italy and Turkey, the domestic political situation in the US facing the newly elected President John F Kennedy, and in the USSR, where Premier Nikita Khrushchev had taken leadership of the Soviet through a harsh four year power struggle after Stalin’s death in 1953 .
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