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Wait, the US had nukes in Turkey? And people wonder why the Soviets were scared.

dont forget Vasili Arkhipov as he stopped his captain from attacking the US Navy with a nuclear weapons. this man is a hero

One one ever talks about the true hero behind the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vasili Arkhipov, a political officer aboard a submerged submarine carrying nuclear armaments to Cuba that lost communications after being struck by a depth charge; the sub commander believed that the war had begun, and being unable to confirm, made the decision to ready his misses for launch and was only prevented from starting the desolation of the known world by this one man: Vasili Arkhipov.

You forgot the fact that Charles Xavier got paralysed.

Don't forget about the Soviet submarine crew who thought that the war started. 2 of the officers wanted to launch the nuclear missiles but a third officer refused He saved the world

That nukes are still in Turkey lol :D

America:*puts missiles in turkey* Soviets:bish wut.

Problems with this video: 1. Didn't mention that Kruschev placed the missles in response to U.S. having missles in Turkey, as well as the Cuba's desire to have a deterant against the U.S. invading Cuba, as they had attempted at The Bay of Pigs. 2. Didn't mention that the US did not follow through with removing the missles in Turkey. 3. Didn't mention that US destroyers depth charged Soviet sub B-59 to force them to surface and that, if it were not for the veto of one senior officer, the sub was going to launch nuclear tipped torpedoes at the Blockade, thinking that the depth charges were a signal that war broken out. Overall, this video white washes US culpability in creating the crisis and the fact that the US almost destroyed the world.

United States: Puts missiles in turkey threatening Russia Russia: Puts missiles in Cuba in response United States: Surprised Pikachu face

Interestingly the White House and the Kremlin were using letters and telegrams to communicate over the crisis. Only afterwards did the telephone hotline come about, making communications between the two super powers faster.

hey, great videos guys, just one small thing: the Russian deployment of their nuclear capabilities had come only after the US deployed theirs in Turkey. In fact in the agreement that was signed states that the US will withdraw their nuclear weapons from Turkey, who objected, stating that they will be vulnerable to the ambitions of the Soviets. it was done nevertheless, so i think its a very important detail when describing the cuban missile crisis.

My father was in Army basic training during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They had their weapons training and were told if things kick off with Russia they could be skip the rest of their training to be put on the front lines. They figured all they really needed was knowing how to use their weapons and a little fire and maneuver training.

My father was a 19 year old man on the U.S. Theodore Roosevelt working sonar. It was The United States third ballistic submarine. They where waiting for the orders from Kennedy.

That one man who declined the launch is a literally real hero of the world. He saved billions and a whole planet of life from dying.

Fun fact: Kennedy not any American is NOT the reason why you are alive today. Vasili Arkhipov(Soviet Naval Officer) is.

Pronunciation of "nuclear" simplified: "nu" + "clear" Otherwise loved this simple, clear explanation of a complicated situation. Thank you!

Who remembers that Cuban guy from black ops 1

So XCOM was/is real

I think this paved the way for Putin claims on Ukraine-NATO.

"Nucular" REEEEEEEEEEE

I don't understand how people can dislike this video?

Cuba: hey America USA: *BEGONE*

Fun fact: Fidel Castro LOVED anything dairy related, ice-cream, milk. You name it.

*THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN*

I remember my grandfather telling me how absolutely terrifying this was when news broke out on these missiles. Like, it was SO close to an even bigger conflict O.o

Forgetting that USA stationed missiles in turkey first Russia had little choice but to respond

Whole black ops storyline

to be fair, the US had nuclear weapons pointed at the USSR in Europe, so American was the first aggressor

America sending weapons to South Vietnam: Soviet No problem Soviet Union sending weapons to Cuba America surprised Pikachu face

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2:48 RIP U-2 spy plane

USA:Let's put missiles in Turkey imao USSR:*puts missiles in Cuba* USA:*suprise pikachu face*

Simple history should also say that we had missiles pointed to the Soviet Union in Turkey before the Soviet Union had them in Cuba so the US started the war.

Anyone see the similarities between back then and ukraine nowadays? Anyone?

"Hey, you know if you just remove your missiles from Turkey, we'd remove ours from Cuba?" "Yeah..." "Yeah that sounds good to me."

Can't forget about Vasily Arkhipov, the guy who basically stopped WW3

He forgot to mention, that another reason why the US was angry at cuba was because they started trading sugar for russian oil. When the US found out they told them to stop, and they didn't and in return the US stopped trade with them, pushing Cuba to have Russia as its main buyer. In which stronger ties came about and eventually lead to the missiles being set up in cuba.

Thanks for the short, concise recap. I started MGS3 last night but realized quickly that I knew very little about the Cuban Missile Crisis

US placing nuclear missiles within strike range of USSR...... nobody gives a damn USSR doing the same and everyone loses their mind Also it was kruschev 's generosity that he agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba which costed him his career!

And old chinese man visited Seoul and arrived Seoul airport custom, He forget where his passport was. The korean stuff become impatient and asked him "Why you did prepare and hold passport when you are here, is it your first time come here?" "second time " The old man answered. "So why you dont know passport is needed?" Said the stuff. "Because the passport was not required in first time" "Impossible, Chinese of course need passport to come here. When did you come last time?" "1951, by a tank "

No mention that the placement of the missiles in Cuba was a REACTION to the US placing missiles in Turkey? Middle range weapons have a shorter warning period (shorter travel time), thus shifting the balance in the nuclear stalemate significantly. Moscow was in range of the Turkish missiles, so of course they reacted.

58 years ago from today. Damn gald to be alive.

Informative, thank you!

Thank you so much for these videos my history teachers loves watching them.your videos are Intresting and you are so helpful.

the americans can put nukes in europe.. but the ussr cant in cuba?

Learned about wars in depth involving US today in civics when we were learning about international conflict and methods of resolution . This was one of them and it helped 🙌🏽

this was just amazing , thank you so much

Love these vids man so educational!

can u do the Korean War

What Cold War event do you want to see next?

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I love it how you just skipped over the US misiles in Turkey, which were the cause for sending same to Cuba

Simple History Thank you so much I love your vids so much I am getting high 80's Percent just by getting so much knowledge from all the videos which all link with each other, its insane if you watch all the videos from WW1 to WW2 you will be a master of 1914 to 1945 haha anyways Thanks from Australia

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U.S:Hey! you can't do that USSR:I don't know what your talking about *COMMIES VS CAPITALISM INTESTIFIES*

Sooooo it's fine for the US to keep their missiles in Turkey but it's not fine for the USSR to keep their missiles in Cuba? Bunch of crybabies...

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Kennedy seemed like a really nice guy. Wish I could've met him

I never understood why the misile crisis was so important until i watched this video, thank you simple history

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Great vid, that u guys always do and the animation rules. Have a nice day. :)

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Forgot to mention the active terrorism in Cuba by the US but you did mention the most important things so yeah, fair enough.

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Well, a big part was omiten. Yes, the USSR put missiles in Cuba, but in response of the Jupiter missiles placed by the USA in Turkey, that was literally sharing borders with the USSR. The Soviet president (can someone tell me how it is spelled?) agreed to retire the missiles in Cuba, if Kennedy retired the ones in Turkey, but, just like the video said, they refused and when that was the only solution, they met in secret and so on

top 3 histories I like: 1. wwii 2. cuban missile crisis 3. american civil war

Thank you so much This video saved me for my Social Studies homework!! :-)

Yay! Another great informative video

I don't get why these guys don't have millions of subs there so good!

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Please do a video on the Luftwaffe. I would love to learn about it. Anyways amazing videos. These are so under rated.

A shame you didnt mention Varsili arkhiplov(idk the spelling properly)

So if installation of missiles in Cuba created a threat for US I don't know why Ukrain is not creating a threat to Russia by joining EU and NATO......

Helpful and good!!!

You deserve than 140k subs you deserve more than a million subs

Do other nuclear close calls such as KAL 007, Soviet nuclear false alarm involving Stanislav Petrov, Able Archer, and the 1995 Norweigan Rocket Incident.

if America have a white house? does that mean Soviet have a *RED HOUSE?!*

Tysm I learnt more from this that a whole year of history lessons! Hopefully I don’t fail my exams now xox

My great great uncle helped in the Cuban missile crisis

History will repeat itself again💯thanks to american aggression and greed for dominance

During those times my parents said to me those were humanity darkest days before I was born

Good job

This video has helped me .I know have a better understanding of the crisis that took place in the year 1962

It took 2:41 to even mention USA had missiles in Turkey. Never mentioned that USSR sending missiles to Cuba was a REACTION to USA having missiles in Turkey. Never mentioned that those missiles were nuclear. Instead, he calls them by their name [PGM-19] "Jupiter" but calls Soviet missiles "nuclear missiles" instead of their name "R-12 Dvina". This is what biased history looks like :)

My nans relative Ron Blur was a Navigator aboard the Vulcan bomber of the RAF during the Cold War he was once sent out and when aboard he found a letter which he was told to open once they reached a certain altitude and it read, 'don't bother coming back because there will be nothing to come back to'. The British believed a nuke was going to be dropped on them which is why he recieved this letter and it still fascinates me to this day.

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This was difficult for Kennedy as he had to prove to everyone that he wasn't 'weak' as his reputation proved - so he could either fix an agreement with the USSR to remove their missiles out of Cuba or prove that he can make rash decisions. Instead of starting a nuclear war, which would most definitely wipe out Cuba - and wouldn't look good for the USA crushing a small country. - He made a blockade, to restrict any more missiles coming into Cuba. Kennedy named this a quarantine so that it would sound better to opposition. Some ships sailed out, transporting missiles and spotted the US Navy blockade and stopped in their tracks, waiting, sweating.. Until someone ordered them around. This moment was when the USSR gave in. Khrushchev was trying to look like 'The peacemaker' but ended up looking like he lost against the US. But this boosted Kennedy's reputation and as a result, his difficult choice was the right choice.

The super powers are threat to human races.

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this is what introduced me to this channel because of call of duty black ops

i think this rather ONE SIDED video is missing a rather CRUCIAL fact .... that the placement of missiles in cuba was done to counter the placement of american ICBMs in Ankara Turkey which were pointed at moscow .. seems pretty fair to me

Keep this in mind when you look at Ukraine...

May you please do a simple history on the Japanese WWII Kamikaze. I'm doing a project on them for school and I used your video on the gallipoli campaign as a source for my project. It was very helpful!

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XCOM!? it was real all along