Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis happen?
Shows causes on the record, then each account's causes side by side.
Not a single settled cause.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
- Causes Jupiter missile deployment in Turkey, according to Soviet government 1961 – Apr 1963
Each account
A to Z, none ranked above another.
According to Soviet government
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Jupiter missile deployment in Turkey
caused
1961 – Apr 1963
Primary record
1
Your missiles are located in Turkey. You are disturbed over Cuba. You say that this disturbs you because it is 90 miles by sea from the coast of the United States of America. But Turkey adjoins us; our sentries patrol back and forth and see each other.
According to United States government
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Operation Anadyr
caused
1962
Primary record
2
Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.
Proof 2 sources
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Letter From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy, Moscow, October 27, 1962 (FRUS 1961–1963, vol. VI, doc. 66), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 27 Oct 1962.
Primary record
Your missiles are located in Turkey. You are disturbed over Cuba. You say that this disturbs you because it is 90 miles by sea from the coast of the United States of America. But Turkey adjoins us; our sentries patrol back and forth and see each other.
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Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara, 22 Oct 1962.
Primary record
Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island.
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