![]() Starting in November of that year, the US government engaged in a violent campaign of terrorism and sabotage in Cuba, referred to as the Cuban Project, which continued throughout the first half of the 1960s. It had also trained a paramilitary force of Cuban exiles, which the CIA led in an attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow its government. In 1961, the US government put Jupiter nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war. The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis, in Russian known as the Caribbean Crisis ( Карибский кризис) and in Cuba as the October Crisis ( Spanish: Crisis de Octubre), was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. ![]() Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis (Naval quarantine of Cuba ended on 20 November)
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