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The Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded over 13 days in October 1962 after the U.S. discovered Soviet missile installations in Cuba via U-2 spy plane imagery. U.S. President Kennedy announced a naval blockade on October 22 to prevent further Soviet shipments. As tensions escalated, including the shooting down of a U-2 aircraft, Khrushchev eventually agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for U.S. non-invasion assurances and a secret withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey, thus averting a nuclear war.
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