[DOC] [TLE] Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia [PAR] The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de 
octubre), the ... Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in 
Cuba and return .... In May 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was 
persuaded by the idea of ..... Air strike: Use the US Air Force to attack all known 
missile sites. [DOC] [TLE] Nikita Khrushchev: Cuban Missile Crisis & De-Stalinization | Online ... [PAR] ... and the country successfully tested the H-bomb, launched the Sputnik and built 
its ... Khrushchev warned the US that it would be prepared to act if the US used ... 
the nuclear devices were there to defend Cuba against possible US intervention. 
... USSR, Kennedy stated that US rocket bases were there to defend Europe,... [DOC] [TLE] Cuban missile crisis: how the US played Russian roulette with ... [PAR] Oct 15, 2012 ... There is little doubt what the US reaction would have been had the ... planned to 
upgrade the nuclear threat against the Soviet Union to a ... Robert Kennedy 
warned that a full-scale invasion of Cuba would ... Cuba's Communist leader 
Fidel Castro with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev during a 1963 official... [DOC] [TLE] Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline - Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: History: [PAR] Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev supports Cuba in dispute with U.S. over ... 
present the case as though rocket bases of the Soviet Union are being set up or 
are .... but recognize that "final success will require decisive U.S. military 
intervention. ..... for the Soviet Union, then this country will do whatever must be 
done to protect... [DOC] [TLE] The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 - Milestones in the History ... [PAR] After the failed U.S. attempt to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba with the Bay 
of ... in July 1962 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev reached a secret agreement 
... 1962, President Kennedy issued a public warning against the introduction of ... 
in which the Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba if the United States... [DOC] [TLE] Nikita Khrushchev challenges United States to a missile shooting ... [PAR] On this day in History, Nikita Khrushchev challenges United States to a ... He 
cautioned, however, that although the Soviet Union would never start a war, 
some ... missile gap between U.S. and Soviet rocket arsenals continued through 
the early ... by making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the 
country. [DOC] [TLE] The Cuban Missile Crisis | History Today [PAR] Kennedy had used Cuba repeatedly in the election campaign, accusing his ... He 
made it very clear to the CIA that US forces would not intervene if the plan went 
awry. ... Kennedy also warned the Soviet Union against challenging the USA in 
the western hemisphere. ... But he also alarmed Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. [DOC] [TLE] Khrushchev's Placement of Missiles in Cuba - All Empires [PAR] The Soviet leader had made it clear to Washington that Cuba would feature in ... [
2] So how is it that Nikita Khrushchev risked the fate of human civilisation for the 
sake ... other countries to follow, as well as an urgent need to protect the Soviet 
Union .... rocket hysteria', this was the same reasoning the American's had used 
to... [DOC] [TLE] Nikita Khrushchev promises to defend Cuba (1960) - Alpha History [PAR] In July 1960 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech to teachers in 
Moscow, in which he promised to defend Cuba from American aggression. ... The 
Soviet Union is raising its voice on behalf of and offering help to the people of ... 
The peoples of the socialist countries will help their Cuban brothers to uphold... [DOC] [TLE] Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, "The Most Dangerous Moment," 50 ... [PAR] Oct 15, 2012 ... Garthoff comments: The Soviets could only see [the attack] as an effort to ... [
Khrushchev] was also sincere in his desire to defend the Cuban revolution ... The 
implication is that U.S. military intervention would take place in October ... called 
a high-level nuclear alert (DEFCON 3) to warn the Russians to keep... [DOC] [TLE] Cold War

Question: Nikita Khrushchev warned that the U.S.S.R. would use rockets to protect this country from U.S. intervention
Answer: Cuba