In the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Multiple Choice

In the Cuban Missile Crisis

• A) the Soviet Union objected to the United States placing missiles in Cuba.
• B) the United States objected to the Soviet Union placing missiles in Cuba.
• C) the United States was threatened by the Cubans' attempts to develop nuclear missiles and become a third superpower.
• D) both superpowers sought to provoke each other into a direct confrontation in order to test their nuclear missiles.
• E) Cuba gained control of U.S. missiles after Cuba's communist revolution.

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