Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Cuban_Missile_Crisis_(1962)

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:October_Crisis gptkb:Caribbean_Crisis
gptkbp:causedBy	deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
gptkbp:commemoratedBy	Cuban Missile Crisis anniversary (October 16–28)
gptkbp:CubanLeader	gptkb:Fidel_Castro
gptkbp:CubanMilitaryBranchInvolved	gptkb:Revolutionary_Armed_Forces_of_Cuba
gptkbp:documentedIn	gptkb:The_Missiles_of_October_(TV_film) gptkb:Thirteen_Days_(film) numerous books and documentaries
gptkbp:endDate	1962-10-28
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treaty
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
gptkbp:leader	gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Cuba gptkb:Soviet_Union gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	extensive international media attention
gptkbp:militaryCampaign	gptkb:Operation_Mongoose gptkb:Operation_Anadyr
gptkbp:negotiatedBy	gptkb:John_F._Kennedy gptkb:Nikita_Khrushchev gptkb:Robert_F._Kennedy gptkb:Anatoly_Dobrynin
gptkbp:notableEvent	U-2 spy plane shot down over Cuba secret agreement to remove US missiles from Turkey US agrees not to invade Cuba USSR agrees to remove missiles
gptkbp:participants	gptkb:Cuba gptkb:Soviet_Union gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Cold_War nuclear arms race US–Soviet relations
gptkbp:result	withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba establishment of Moscow–Washington hotline withdrawal of US missiles from Turkey
gptkbp:riskFactor	nuclear war
gptkbp:significance	closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war height of the Cold War
gptkbp:SovietAction	deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba
gptkbp:SovietMilitaryBranchInvolved	gptkb:Soviet_Navy gptkb:Soviet_Army
gptkbp:startDate	1962-10-16
gptkbp:USAction	naval blockade of Cuba
gptkbp:USMilitaryBranchInvolved	gptkb:US_Air_Force gptkb:US_Navy
gptkbp:USPresidentInvolved	gptkb:John_F._Kennedy
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:United_States_(until_1964) gptkb:Vienna_Summit_(1961)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7