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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Jan 19, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Grove City College Professor Paul Kengor explored the tense days of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union faced off over missiles in Cuba in one of the “hottest” episodes of the Cold War. He explained how the ideological militancy of Cuban leader Fidel Castro worried leaders in both Moscow and Washington who did not truly desire nuclear conflict despite their tough talk.
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Released:
Jan 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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