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The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 1 of 2

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Cuba - A New Battleground in the Cold War

In 1961, 25 countries get together and create the Non-Aligned Movement. This was an expression of Third World Solidarity saying we don't want to be dominated by either the Soviet Union or the United States. The U.S. demanded that no country in the Western Hemisphere join the Non- Aligned Movement except one country did: Cuba.

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