The Cuban Missile Crisis
Journal: Journal of Advance Research in Social Science and Humanities (ISSN 2208-2387)
Year: 2025

The crisis of October 1962 was one of the most dangerous conflicts of the Cold War period which bringing the world perilously close to nuclear disaster. This article aims at analyzing the origin of the conflict between United States and Soviet Union with emphasis on strategic and ideology factors that characterized the conflict. It examines related power politics on the international stage, such as the Soviet Union putting missiles in Cuba in response to the placing of American missiles in Turke