How was the disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union about the Cuban Missile Crisis finally resolved?

On this day in History, The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end on Oct 28, 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union that came close to provoking a nuclear conflict. Relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union were on shaky ground. The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end. The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba’s territorial sovereignty. This ended nearly two weeks of anxiety and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union that came close to provoking a nuclear conflict. The consequences of the crisis were many and varied. Relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union were on shaky ground for some time after Khrushchev’s removal of the missiles, as Fidel Castro accused the Russians of backing down from the Americans and deserting the Cuban revolution. European allies of the United States were also angered, not because of the U. S. stance during the crisis, but because the Kennedy administration kept them virtually in the dark about negotiations that might have led to an atomic war. Inside the Soviet Union, hardened for less than a year after the crisis ended the United States and Soviet Union.

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11th Grade Social Studies Teacher