Task 1:
Explain how Russia and America came close to direct military confrontation with
each other in 1962 and how the crisis was averted.
America came so close to direct military confrontation in 1962 for a number of
reasons, a few of which are described below.
Russia and America had two different ideologies, communism and democracy. The
communists believed that the whole world would eventually revolutionise and
become communist and that it was their duty to speed up this process. The Americans
however, felt that communism was a threat to their ideals (anyone, no matter how
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