October Crisis

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Cold War crisis international diplomatic crisis nuclear weapons crisis

The October Crisis, more commonly known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, was a 1962 Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Aliases (1)

October Crisis of 1962 ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cold War crisis → international diplomatic crisis → nuclear weapons crisis →
countryInvolved	Cuba → Soviet Union → United States →
describedAs	closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war →
diplomaticMeasure	back-channel negotiations via Robert F. Kennedy and Anatoly Dobrynin →
endDate	1962-10-28 →
followedBy	Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty →
hasAlternativeName	Caribbean Crisis → Cuban Missile Crisis → October Crisis of 1962 →
hasCause	Bay of Pigs Invasion → U.S.–Soviet strategic rivalry → United States deployment of Jupiter missiles in Turkey and Italy → deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba →
hasParticipant	Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces → Fidel Castro → John F. Kennedy → Nikita Khrushchev → Robert F. Kennedy → Soviet Armed Forces → United States Navy →
involvesWeaponType	intermediate-range ballistic missiles → medium-range ballistic missiles → nuclear warheads →
keyDecision	Kennedy’s decision to impose a naval quarantine instead of immediate air strikes → Khrushchev’s decision to withdraw missiles from Cuba →
locatedIn	Caribbean Sea → Cuba →
mainEvent	U.S. naval quarantine of Cuba → discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba by U.S. reconnaissance → public and private exchanges of letters between Kennedy and Khrushchev → secret negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union → shootdown of U-2 spy plane over Cuba →
militaryMeasure	Soviet deployment of nuclear-armed submarines near the quarantine line → U.S. Strategic Air Command alert to DEFCON 2 →
partOf	Cold War →
precededBy	Bay of Pigs Invasion →
result	establishment of the Moscow–Washington hotline → increased emphasis on nuclear arms control → secret U.S. agreement to remove Jupiter missiles from Turkey → signing of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963 → withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba →
risk	potential U.S. invasion of Cuba → threat of global nuclear war →
startDate	1962-10-16 →
timePeriod	October 1962 →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cuban Missile Crisis → Missile Scare →	alsoKnownAs
October Crisis ("October Crisis of 1962") →	hasAlternativeName