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Macintosh Picture Format  |  1997-02-26  |  67KB  |  432x324  |  8-bit (89 colors)

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OCR: The Naval Blorkade ofCuba About th: Missile Crisis When Castro toak pawer in Cuba, Commurist country was for the first time, in "firing range of the Urited States When it was discovered that the Soviet Union was building nuclear missile sites inCuba, the United States taak action. President Kennedy esta blished naval block kade around Cuba, and on October 22 1962, he demanded that the Soviets rermove all missiles from Cuba For twa long weeks, tensions were high between the nuc. lear superpowers. Finally, the Soviet Union backed down and war was averted bout took power Communist Kernedy blockade super powers

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