Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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According to the U.S. Office Of The Historian, Nikita Khrushchev shipped ballistic missiles to Cuba while under the impression that President Kennedy was too weak to effectively respond. However, once Kennedy arranged for a naval blockade of Cuba and the two nations’ military forces stood on the brink of nuclear war, Khrushchev agreed to dismantle his Cuban missiles in exchange for the American removal of missile sites in Turkey.
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Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- Georgy Malenkov
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Joseph Stalin
- Leonid Brezhnev
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