1962 Missile Crisis: How A Nuclear WW3 Was Narrowly Averted | M.A.D World | Timeline

The Cold War: When nuclear weapons kept the entire world on the edge of M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction. As Russia, China and the USA flex their military muscles on the global stage today, ‘M.A.D. World’ takes a close look at the last time we were threatened by the might of world superpowers: The Cold War.
In this episode:
- The world steps to the edge of annihilation as the Soviet Union starts to place nuclear warheads in Cuba. Delicate negotiations between Presidents Kennedy and Krushchev bring the crisis to a peaceful close.
- Vietnam: This small nation far from the Cold War front in Europe rebounds from French colonial oppression with a desire for communism. The USA decides to send in its own troops to stop the spread of communism into SE Asia.
- Czechoslovakia tries out ‘communism with a human face’ by relaxing control of the press, and allowing a limited free the market. This lasts 8 months before soviet tanks arrive overnight and violently crush the new freedoms.
- The USA finally pulls ahead in the Space Race by putting the first human being on the moon. It is a demonstration to the world that the west has cutting edge technology in rocket and missile development.
- The Vietnam War becomes a drawn out and bloody battleground for the US and the USSR, costing millions of lives and billions of dollars.
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  • @LeeRenthlei
    @LeeRenthlei3 ай бұрын

    You gotta love the hypocrisy of the US, they installed the missiles in Turkey first and then the USSR in turn installed their own in Cuba but the USSR were called "the aggressor". LOL

  • @randylahey1822

    @randylahey1822

    2 ай бұрын

    Can't be too careful!

  • @DonaldWMeyers-dwm
    @DonaldWMeyers-dwm11 ай бұрын

    Stop blurring the footage. It's a historical documentary.

  • @mattbriody7575

    @mattbriody7575

    11 ай бұрын

    blame youtube, it's their lame rules that force them to blur anything that might offend delicate sensibilities....

  • @ems4884

    @ems4884

    11 ай бұрын

    It's KZread's fault. It's a company run by idiots

  • @ems4884

    @ems4884

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@mattbriody7575 it's more that they can't be bothered to distinguish between an appropriate use of violent footage and a sensationalist one. It's incredibly stupid and in cases like this, a real disservice to educational content

  • @mattbriody7575

    @mattbriody7575

    11 ай бұрын

    @@ems4884 I stand by my 'KZread is Lame' comment.

  • @vaels5682

    @vaels5682

    11 ай бұрын

    I don't think they have a choice if they want to post on KZread

  • @morningstar9233
    @morningstar923311 ай бұрын

    Would have preferred a whole video on the Cuban missile crisis as the title indicated.

  • @Aranjuez44

    @Aranjuez44

    11 ай бұрын

    EXACTLY!! What is THIS?! I didn’t tune in to watch a documentary on the Viet Nam war. Not watching any further. Smh.

  • @Qohgn2188

    @Qohgn2188

    9 ай бұрын

    Frankly the title has a pretty simple answer. So yeah, doesn’t make much sense that the majority of it is about Vietnam but it would’ve been 12 minutes otherwise.

  • @jimkluska253

    @jimkluska253

    2 ай бұрын

    There are a few Cuban missile vids that are good...one is a vid with Peter Jenkins, ..another is on the history channel...both good..and easily found by hitting the search on utube. Good hunting old boy;

  • @morningstar9233

    @morningstar9233

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks, will have a look. @@jimkluska253

  • @tony3313
    @tony331311 ай бұрын

    Thankfully, Kennedy didn't listen to his Generals. We probably wouldn't be here now, if he had.

  • @tellmemoreplease9231

    @tellmemoreplease9231

    11 ай бұрын

    Correct. See "Fog of War"

  • @checkmate79

    @checkmate79

    11 ай бұрын

    Unlike today we had leaders back then that understood reality

  • @mephistoxarses8585
    @mephistoxarses858510 ай бұрын

    I dont think we truly know...just how lucky we are to still be here.

  • @jimkluska253

    @jimkluska253

    2 ай бұрын

    Luck had nothing to do with it.....Think about it ....GODS providence...nothing more

  • @lucianoosorio5942
    @lucianoosorio59429 ай бұрын

    Nikita Krushchev: You know if you just remove your missiles out from Turkey, we remove ours from Cuba. John F Kennedy: Yeah that’s sounds good to me. World: *Gigantic sigh of relief* Later* Robert McNamara: Prime minister Castro, this missile crisis has been the last straw. We almost blew up! Now we invited you here in good faith, to sort this thing out.

  • @mikealvord55

    @mikealvord55

    7 ай бұрын

    Simpleton.

  • @user-pi9ok4uv7h
    @user-pi9ok4uv7h10 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much Rowan. Liberty and Freedom is absolute 💯

  • @pamartin
    @pamartin11 ай бұрын

    Good thing those images were blurred otherwise I might have thought that war was bad...

  • @Doogie53
    @Doogie538 ай бұрын

    I remember 1983 I had just woke up and the local council tested the WWIII siren in a local school near my house, I totally lost it for a few minutes of the most terrifying anxiety I have ever had, this was around the Euromissile crisis so I can understand how it is. I hope we never go to WWIII.🤮🥵😱👃👃👃👃

  • @Allfaxnocaps

    @Allfaxnocaps

    8 ай бұрын

    I listened to the same sirens growing up. But in the 2000s

  • @tosehoed123

    @tosehoed123

    6 ай бұрын

    Now you mention it i havent heard ours in ages

  • @nigelbenn4642

    @nigelbenn4642

    6 ай бұрын

    Able Archer

  • @jimkluska253

    @jimkluska253

    3 ай бұрын

    Wow!!! I don't think I could have gone back to sleep that night

  • @lisaschuster686
    @lisaschuster6868 ай бұрын

    Heat lightening in Massachusetts terrified me in 60’s. Even children knew an awful anxiety.

  • @arthurfarrow
    @arthurfarrow11 ай бұрын

    The Vietnem War waas the backdrop to my teens and early twenties. TUrn on the TV news and it was 'today in Vietnam

  • @foto21
    @foto218 ай бұрын

    YT censorship of wounded Americans in Vietnam in this video is ridiculous.

  • @supralex1
    @supralex111 ай бұрын

    2023: Hold my beer

  • @supertiger1979
    @supertiger197911 ай бұрын

    Scary stuff to think about. Nukes and living on a razors edge with them.

  • @katherinecollins4685
    @katherinecollins468511 ай бұрын

    Interesting documentary

  • @terrencegawe2729
    @terrencegawe272911 ай бұрын

    I can't watch this because of the unnecessary blurring.

  • @andreribeiro1825
    @andreribeiro182511 ай бұрын

    Smart move from Kruschev, created a situation so the USA removed the missiles from Turkey.

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    11 ай бұрын

    I've always felt alone in saying exactly that. At last!!! Other people aware of BOTH sides of the story. P.S Turkey AND Italy.

  • @chadmendoza2000

    @chadmendoza2000

    9 ай бұрын

    It also means that US started it off

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    9 ай бұрын

    @@chadmendoza2000 A game of nuclear chess.... US moved its pawn to check the USSR "king" but was forced by a clever soviet counter move to retreat its threatening pawn.

  • @mikealvord55

    @mikealvord55

    7 ай бұрын

    Early, Kennedy had already ordered their removal and was being stalled by others, Turkey for one!

  • @mikealvord55

    @mikealvord55

    7 ай бұрын

    @@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 oh brother, study a bit.

  • @sandeep6699
    @sandeep66998 ай бұрын

    You have just blown my mind. Amazing information and wealth of information.

  • @Spiritofaconure
    @Spiritofaconure8 ай бұрын

    11:18 there is no containment once it starts, because even some Allie’s will launch on each other, do you think Russia would want china as the super power left in the region? Or vice versa, that’s what makes this so extraordinarily dangerous, not to mention countries scattered across the globe, there is not much of the world that wouldn’t be affected, it is an extremely scary thought, this is why the world needs to push for peace, I never understood how countries can hate each other so much they are willing to kill off all living things on this planet, even most of the sea life will pass also, there will be no food, barely any sunlight, we won’t be able to grow any crops, and will be forced to eat bugs, we don’t have any defense set up like huge tunnels for the public, North Korea has tunnels all over the place about 1000 ft deep, although that is for Kim’s personal train, and I wouldn’t wanna be a North Korean caught in one of those tunnels because that will be a bad day for him or her, there’s no reason to hate each other, we are all human at the end of the day so let’s get along so we can all live normally,unless you think life would be better with no food, no clean water, radiation exposure everywhere, and only 30% of population will survive

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid358711 ай бұрын

    It's the second time I have seen 👀 this wonderful documentary about atomic poker usage between two world superpowers ( USA and USSR)...due to Westerners' perspectives and USA policies services during cold War

  • @mayamanign
    @mayamanign9 ай бұрын

    "you and I ought not pull on the ends of a rope in which you have tied the knot of war. For the more we pull the tighter the knot will be tied. It will then be necessary to cut that knot. It is not for me to explain to you what that would mean. " Nikita Khrushchev to Kennedy

  • @Heyhoe11
    @Heyhoe113 ай бұрын

    i remeber diving under the desk very vividly

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust157511 ай бұрын

    The missiles weren't a problem it was his own People who assassaninated Him!

  • @pattie1705

    @pattie1705

    8 ай бұрын

    Personally knowing Gen. Lemnitzer, I believe this to be true.

  • @elimgarak3597
    @elimgarak359710 ай бұрын

    I am missing something or they neglected to mention what triggered the crisis in the first place (namely, the Cochinos invasion)?

  • @TwilightxKnight13

    @TwilightxKnight13

    15 күн бұрын

    Well, between our (US) deployment of missiles in central/southern Europe and the failed Cuban invasion the previous year, the Soviets were at least dared to do what they did if not forced to. The US instigated the response.

  • @voice_from_pizza
    @voice_from_pizza11 ай бұрын

    Excellent doc

  • @realnaveen
    @realnaveen11 ай бұрын

    Very well documented! Historical facts on all wars must be open and outlook must be fine blend of traditional, conventional and modern.

  • @Homeschoolsw6
    @Homeschoolsw611 ай бұрын

    46:11...Not even involved in the protest. Just bystanders?

  • @monnimonnickendam7289
    @monnimonnickendam72899 ай бұрын

    Gulf of Tonkin Incident never actually happened, just like the Polish attack on a German radio station in WW2 hours before Germany invaded Poland. American "history" is awful ad inaccurate when held under a magnifying glass.

  • @man_in_red

    @man_in_red

    Ай бұрын

    So true I like how the documentary didn't mention that. Well they say history isn't written by the winners so they should be widely known that was BS cause we got our aces kicked bad in that war

  • @wellitsjustG
    @wellitsjustG10 ай бұрын

    some of this music was lifted from a documentary titled "Stasi"

  • @alexgunawan98
    @alexgunawan982 ай бұрын

    you should use command & conqured musics.

  • @gouthamsingh1595
    @gouthamsingh159511 ай бұрын

    Big big thanks 🙏🙏🙏 to timeline 🎉team for the efforts of sharing world history with rare photographs, footage etc.love from India

  • @bnwo
    @bnwo11 ай бұрын

    Where's the first episode?

  • @wildbill6675
    @wildbill66756 ай бұрын

    I remember when that happened people were digging bomb shelters in their backyard we had the duck and cover drill in school and not too long after that happened Kennedy was assassinated it all ties together I joined the Marine corps two weeks after I graduated from high School

  • @Duncanbro10
    @Duncanbro10Ай бұрын

    What I find weird, everyone I know experiences a bunch of glitches, but I don’t, I have experienced a total of 1 glitch in my month of playing the game, and it only happened when playing multiplayer

  • @elenanash8081
    @elenanash808111 ай бұрын

    Do you know who wins a nuclear wor? No one!

  • @jeffreyval9665

    @jeffreyval9665

    11 ай бұрын

    Your mom

  • @cootriley6

    @cootriley6

    11 ай бұрын

    JFK was a good man, smart yet bold....

  • @sydmccreath4554

    @sydmccreath4554

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jeffreyval9665 His mom & nuclear war = same thing: a bit of excitement to start with but then you realise all you have is a barren wasteland of vast empty space lol😊

  • @kourtbowen7131

    @kourtbowen7131

    11 ай бұрын

    Can you imagine that two men (Two Fu*king men) would of been responsible for the lives of Billions? 😮 I feel as if we’re currently in another Cuban missle Crisis with the tensions with Russia again

  • @davidburke2697

    @davidburke2697

    11 ай бұрын

    @@cootriley6 same as Putin

  • @sleepwalker8496
    @sleepwalker849610 ай бұрын

    This was our generation. Grew up during Cold War. I don't make excuses as to why I love my country more than life itself. 46 through 64.

  • @Forcix

    @Forcix

    10 ай бұрын

    Haha! The ideology you fought against now rules your effin' country.

  • @laqueenawilliams4762

    @laqueenawilliams4762

    9 ай бұрын

    Murdering and invasion. You sure love evil.

  • @seedAndc
    @seedAndc11 ай бұрын

    I like usa 🇺🇸 ..!! Long live to usa 🇺🇸..!!^^

  • @user-sx9nq3qb1j

    @user-sx9nq3qb1j

    9 ай бұрын

    美國抓你去改造時我在看你會不會愛美國

  • @danielmedina5720
    @danielmedina57207 ай бұрын

    Now I can understand why Russia doesn’t want Ukraine as a NATO member (Article 5)

  • @Siikosys
    @Siikosys10 ай бұрын

    Please get rid of your sound engineers for their repeated use of a piston-driven aircraft sound for jet engine powered aircraft!!!

  • @mariefaisal98
    @mariefaisal9811 ай бұрын

    Psalm 55 verses 20 and 21.

  • @ronmraz
    @ronmraz11 ай бұрын

    32:53 Sign changes? What did I see?

  • @krishuntzeroable

    @krishuntzeroable

    11 ай бұрын

    ok Qanon

  • @ronmraz

    @ronmraz

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@krishuntzeroable lol 😂

  • @randylahey1822
    @randylahey18222 ай бұрын

    Full screen censor is wild

  • @kennedymcgovern5413
    @kennedymcgovern541311 ай бұрын

    Oh, and then we get moustache guy. Who is he? "If Kennedy hadn't handled it the way he did, we'd have had a nuclear war." Really? So this guy's brilliant assertion of that Kruschev would not have backed down. The trouble with that theory is that Kruschev DID back down. Therefore, we can assume that had Kennedy put his back against the wall sooner, he would have backed down sooner. We are told, with sincerity and arrogance, that the guy who backed down when we put Destroyers in his face, would have launched nuclear weapons if we had been more direct, and put something else in his face sooner. It might be better next time if you just let the academics stay home, and let the adults talk.

  • @tellmemoreplease9231

    @tellmemoreplease9231

    11 ай бұрын

    NO, if anyone blinked it was JFK. Khrushchev would not remove the missiles unless the U.S. removed their missiles from the Soviet Unions border (Turkey). Than when they agreed to that, Khrushchev had one more demand. The U.S. would not invade Cuba. We were already mobilizing to invade Cuba. JFK agreed to that as well. Good move...... Maybe another reason the CIA got rid of JFK.

  • @philgar7786

    @philgar7786

    11 ай бұрын

    Get an education and face reality, then become mature. You know, an adult. The USA started the Cold War _and_ the Cuban Missile Crisis. And, YES, Kenedy backed down! If not for some major players in the USSR being more diplomatic, patient, and intelligent, especially when dealing with Kennedy, that idiot would have caused a nuclear war.

  • @TwilightxKnight13

    @TwilightxKnight13

    15 күн бұрын

    That assumes that the Soviets didn’t do it intentionally to force the US to withdraw their missiles in n central/southern Europe. They may have never intended for the missiles in Cuba to remain. Just used them to apply pressure on the US.

  • @kennedymcgovern5413

    @kennedymcgovern5413

    14 күн бұрын

    @@TwilightxKnight13 actually, it does not assume this because it doesn't entertain it. The reason is that our intelligence knew full well that the Soviets were actually way behind us in nuclear capability. It is known today that Kruschev was all hat and no cattle. Kennedy knew full well that the sobiets had no choice but toback down. Go back a little further to the notorious1960 debate. At that time, Kennedy did not have yet know that the "missile gap was a myth born entirely from Soviet and propaganda, but Nixon (the sitting VP) knew this fill well. But Nixed n could not hammer Kennedy on this ignorance, because what we knew was very highly classified. Yes, our U2's had completely exposed the Soviet weakness during the Eisenhower asministration and beyond. Hen K nnedy was elected, he was shown this. The Soviets had nowhere near the strength they provided to need to have. They were allowed to bluster as they were, because we needed to keep the capabilities of the U2 quiet. We all know this now. But Kennedy knew it around 5 minutes after this inauguration.

  • @gojirajenkins8528
    @gojirajenkins85288 ай бұрын

    More and more I am beginning to see we did not put any human on the moon ever ......van allen belts

  • @terry4137

    @terry4137

    7 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @hassu2149
    @hassu214911 күн бұрын

    Whats the point of including the clips you heavily blur out to the point it means nothing?

  • @Jpakaliaiki
    @JpakaliaikiАй бұрын

    This is not a Cuban missile crisis documentary

  • @Adammrtl27
    @Adammrtl2711 ай бұрын

    I can't even get a clear signal to call my mom in Connecticut, but Nixon called the astro-Nuts in 1969? 😂

  • @mattbriody7575

    @mattbriody7575

    11 ай бұрын

    The enormous deep space radio comms system they built may have helped a bit..

  • @Adammrtl27

    @Adammrtl27

    11 ай бұрын

    @@mattbriody7575 enormous. 👍 It would have to be...

  • @philgar7786

    @philgar7786

    11 ай бұрын

    OH, NOOO! _The earth is flat!_ _The earth is flat!_ _The earth is flat!_

  • @Adammrtl27

    @Adammrtl27

    11 ай бұрын

    @@philgar7786 oh no, your narrative is losing support... How ever will it sustain itself? 😂🤣

  • @dennardglover2848
    @dennardglover284811 ай бұрын

    Rasputin's Shadow

  • @skramzgod
    @skramzgod11 ай бұрын

    1:50 lmao

  • @RumbScroll101
    @RumbScroll10111 ай бұрын

    Jack Kenndy?? U mean John F Kenndy

  • @trainshavewheels

    @trainshavewheels

    11 ай бұрын

    Believe it or not, Jack is another way of saying John.

  • @crazygemini82

    @crazygemini82

    11 ай бұрын

    He was called Jack by many.

  • @RumbScroll101

    @RumbScroll101

    11 ай бұрын

    @@trainshavewheels never knew that

  • @RumbScroll101

    @RumbScroll101

    11 ай бұрын

    @@crazygemini82 thanks now i know

  • @mattbriody7575

    @mattbriody7575

    11 ай бұрын

    Jack Kennedy was his autistic half brother that lived under his desk in the oval office.

  • @AortaKelly-de8ur
    @AortaKelly-de8ur5 ай бұрын

    ' I don't owe you be quite sure you don't owe me. '

  • @djs8464
    @djs84648 ай бұрын

    KZread millennials... You are here because these people gave their lives for it. Have an integrity to show it all! You owe it to them!!! History ALWAYS repeats itself... Look at Ukraine today...wake up!

  • @terry4137

    @terry4137

    7 ай бұрын

    Millennials are indoctrinated

  • @trainnerd3029
    @trainnerd30298 ай бұрын

    “Me siles? 🤦🏼‍♂️

  • @Knight860
    @Knight86011 ай бұрын

    The Cuban Missile Crisis had a deep impact on JFK, and caused him to become less Hawkish in dealing with the Soviet Union. Whether this played a part in his assassination or not, we may never know.

  • @cootriley6

    @cootriley6

    11 ай бұрын

    His distrust of CIA and the Generals would have kept us out of Vietnam....

  • @Knight860

    @Knight860

    11 ай бұрын

    @@cootriley6 Perhaps or Perhaps not, we will never know.

  • @robertm9490

    @robertm9490

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah it’s really sad we will never know the real reason jfk was assassinated. But I definitely think it was the CIA. I don’t really believe any other group or agency could of pulled it off and cover it up. Just think of all of the secret projects we found out about. Now think of the ones we will never find out about.

  • @ems4884

    @ems4884

    11 ай бұрын

    It did not. There's never been any reason to suspect any conspiracy in the assassination, no matter how many fools insist otherwise. Also, historical records show that the Kremlin reaction to the assassination was an anxious one. It seems they feared the Soviets would be blamed and it could trigger global thermonuclear war. The primary sources have been translated to English and you can read them yourself. Also, the failure in the Bay of Pigs likely began to push Kennedy to rethink how he would handle the Soviets. But yes, the Cuban Missile Crisis surely had a significant impact. How could it not?

  • @ems4884

    @ems4884

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@cootriley6 I'm not sure about that hypothesis. LBJ is often blamed for Vietnam. However, i suspect it would have happened regardless of who was in the White House. The Cold War was largely self-sustaining.

  • @iitzfizz
    @iitzfizzАй бұрын

    18:12 I've never heard anyone say napalm like that, wtf

  • @onkarabilelebeloane6091
    @onkarabilelebeloane60919 ай бұрын

    There are no victors in war.

  • @mikealvord55
    @mikealvord557 ай бұрын

    you know protest if you want, but do not fly the colors of the enemy that’s treason, and those people should’ve paid some price

  • @ShikataGaNai100

    @ShikataGaNai100

    4 ай бұрын

    Uh, that is not treason, it is an exercise of the 1st Amendment. Now, as a Vietnam Veteran and someone with both an MPA and a JD, I advise you not to take the Bar Exam yet; you ain't ready.

  • @sleepwalker8496
    @sleepwalker849610 ай бұрын

    Jolly Green Giants

  • @Spiritofaconure
    @Spiritofaconure8 ай бұрын

    18:53 this guy is a doctor, I don’t know how he is considering he thinks humans can smell each other from over a mile away, that’s a ridiculous thing to say, I doubt you could even smell a cigarette burning from over a mile away

  • @dimitarpetkov4442
    @dimitarpetkov44422 ай бұрын

    This UN meeting would never happen in 21st century. Smoking inside is prohibited

  • @EricJamesJansen
    @EricJamesJansen11 ай бұрын

    My God he wasn't the youngest. Teddy was

  • @Lesmore187
    @Lesmore18711 ай бұрын

    the timing. EMP in space whoever does it first wins, or find peace disarmament

  • @donnieboughton1730

    @donnieboughton1730

    11 ай бұрын

    This is the dumbest thing ever said... you gonna suggest nuking a hurricane next?

  • @sydmccreath4554

    @sydmccreath4554

    11 ай бұрын

    ELECTRO MAGNETIC PLATING ?

  • @Lesmore187

    @Lesmore187

    11 ай бұрын

    @@sydmccreath4554 nah not good enough

  • @imagineSasa
    @imagineSasa11 ай бұрын

    but if those guys in the 60s dint start a nuclear war there will not be a nuclear war in our lifetime

  • @PaulStClair-or3gj

    @PaulStClair-or3gj

    4 ай бұрын

    Nagasaki and Hiroshima was the first Nuclear war surely

  • @michaelengen7392
    @michaelengen73924 ай бұрын

    If Russia wants peace they need to accept the concepts of individual freedom and economic freedom. Problem solved.

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684
    @walterkronkitesleftshoe668411 ай бұрын

    Lots of people waking up to the truth that the "CMC" had TWO sides to the story, of which most in the west only know one side. But when talking of Turkey remember that the "Jupiter" missiles were also based in Italy and were removed from there too.

  • @jimkluska253

    @jimkluska253

    2 ай бұрын

    Those missiles were obsolete.

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    2 ай бұрын

    @@jimkluska253 Yes, while I'm sure the "delivery vehicle" of the Jupiter PGM 19 MRBM were dated as the technology raced ahead, I'm also sure that their 1.4 megaton war heads were STILL as effective and threatening as when they had been sited in Turkey and Italy 4 years before the Cuban missile crisis. If they hadn't been forced to remove them from Europe they would have in their time been replaced with more upto date rockets, but that wasn't possible after their withdrawal. but regardless of that the whole matter became academic to BOTH sides as the technology progressed to develop longer ranged missiles. Don't try to wriggle out of it, the US was manoeuvred into withdrawing its forward medium range ballistic missiles, and yet still managed to portray it as "an American victory".

  • @jimkluska253

    @jimkluska253

    2 ай бұрын

    @@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I think you read into my comment a whole lot more than was actually there,.. don't get me wrong, your comment was really filled,...and what you were able to extrapolate from " those missiles were obsolete " simply was extraordinary to say the least. And wriggling is something I have never done. Post script, they serve decaf now🥺.......( just a little joke there) take care

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    2 ай бұрын

    @@jimkluska253 My mistake, It was a reasonable perception that your first response attempted to minimise the loss to the US. The Jupiter missiles in Europe were a "checkmate" move by the US in geopolitics.... the soviet response of furnishing Castro with their own missiles countered the US move and forced an American retraction. Its a pity you find fulsome responses to be in some way, hyperactive? No matter, likewise best wishes to yourself.

  • @jimkluska253

    @jimkluska253

    2 ай бұрын

    @@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 dude,..u need a Xanax. Really man

  • @worldatmyfingertips7771
    @worldatmyfingertips777110 ай бұрын

    The title was misleading, I thought the whole documentary was going to be about the actual 1962 missile crisis alone, what we're getting instead are just a random collection of historical moments when WW3 could have started during the cold war. This is more like your regular amateur KZread channel top ten lists, like watchmojo or be amazed not a normal documentary, 😒

  • @Tony-dv5fs
    @Tony-dv5fs6 ай бұрын

    10:55 didn’t the US install Nuclear weapons after the USSR installed Nuclear weapons in Turkey? Wasn’t the original reason the soviets installed nuclear weapons in Cuba was because the unification of West Germany/Berlin and the the attempted invasion by the CIA of Cuba?

  • @sleepwalker8496
    @sleepwalker849610 ай бұрын

    Never Blur Footage. Teach History in all its ugliest Footage. Never Forget

  • @TheRedkid20
    @TheRedkid209 ай бұрын

    The Russian that stopped the launch is the greatest hero in the history of the human species.

  • @terry4137

    @terry4137

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes!

  • @ShawnWashington-rb9zq
    @ShawnWashington-rb9zq11 ай бұрын

    Bet they think twice about war, it's no good for either side

  • @schoolofgrowthhacking
    @schoolofgrowthhacking10 ай бұрын

    2:48 Jack Kennedy? Lol

  • @jayadams9561
    @jayadams95616 ай бұрын

    Theodore Roosevelt’s still the youngest president

  • @MiKo97100
    @MiKo9710010 ай бұрын

    I will not continue to follow this due to the blured pictures. Good ridance.

  • @toddgoza3522
    @toddgoza35228 ай бұрын

    My dad was 82nd airborne during this time said they were on alert!

  • @tkskagen
    @tkskagen11 ай бұрын

    We as citizens do not want to accept this probability...

  • @sydmccreath4554

    @sydmccreath4554

    11 ай бұрын

    “WE” ha! err excuse me, I’ll speak for MYSELF THANK YOU.

  • @SortaProfessional89
    @SortaProfessional899 ай бұрын

    Ahhh the gulf of Tonkin.. the first successful false flag attack orchestrated by the military industrial complex

  • @paulparker8298

    @paulparker8298

    8 ай бұрын

    Pearl Harbor

  • @TwilightxKnight13
    @TwilightxKnight1315 күн бұрын

    While I can appreciate wanting to deny the proliferation of nuclear arms, it is INCREDIBLY arrogant and hypocritical the way the US deploys our own nuclear weapons in Europe and Asia and tell other countries they cannot do the same. Example, we placed missiles in Turkey with the clear intention of firing them at the Soviets and when they deployed their own in Cuba, we threatened going to war over it. In the modern, we have missile throughout the world, but we dictate to unallied countries like North Korea and Iran that if they develop nuclear weapons, or even attempt to, we will attack them. By any definition, that is an unprovoked attack and an act of war. Period. I don’t like the idea of Iran developing a nuclear program, but under what authority do we get to dictate to a foreign sovereign nation how they choose to defend themselves? It’s idiotic.

  • @sharpskilz
    @sharpskilz11 ай бұрын

    These docs would be better without the music and sfx

  • @Livemas-co6kd

    @Livemas-co6kd

    11 ай бұрын

    True

  • @sharpskilz

    @sharpskilz

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Livemas-co6kd They would need to write more script though, Too much work. Ha!

  • @Eazy-ERyder

    @Eazy-ERyder

    11 ай бұрын

    No they wouldn't. Its a MODERN world.

  • @sharpskilz

    @sharpskilz

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Eazy-ERyder Why the old fashioned Doc style with a cheesy soundtrack?

  • @truthaboveall7988
    @truthaboveall79888 ай бұрын

    Meanwhile the US has Russia & China surrounded w nukes & military bases - imagine if they tried to form a military alliance w Latin America housing nukes in Mexico 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🇺🇸🧠🕳️

  • @josephpiskac2781
    @josephpiskac278111 ай бұрын

    The Czech invasion took place because because the free Czech economic policies were destroying the currency and banking system.

  • @prestige360worldwide3
    @prestige360worldwide311 ай бұрын

    **WHY BLURR THE DEAD BODIES!?????**** WE NEED TO BE ALLOWED TO SEE THE HORRIBLE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR ADULTS I MEAN

  • @man_in_red
    @man_in_redАй бұрын

    The war in Ukraine was never our business. Ukraine and Taiwan we just cant stay out of other nations business.

  • @jimsharp5044
    @jimsharp50446 ай бұрын

    My mom was 8 1./2 pregnant with me during the Cuban Missile crisis. She I was going to be born in a bomb shelter

  • @Allfaxnocaps
    @Allfaxnocaps8 ай бұрын

    Where are All the black soldiers? I don’t see them anywhere? So wierd right?

  • @darrellwhittington4645
    @darrellwhittington464510 ай бұрын

    that’s political correctness for you !

  • @ripbones6631
    @ripbones66314 ай бұрын

    Food for thought: Why did America go half-way across the world to fight communism in Vietnam while allowing it to exist 90 miles off our border?

  • @Jean-vr7vj

    @Jean-vr7vj

    4 ай бұрын

    So they could claim they are being attacked whilst being far far away from home thus have an excuse to wage war of course.

  • @randylahey1822

    @randylahey1822

    2 ай бұрын

    Have you ever heard of the Potsdam declarations or the treaty of San Francisco? Negotiations had to be done after ww2 between China and it's neighbors (Philippines and Vietnam). An old dispute which also involved France and the UK. There's like a million different reasons why American ships were patrolling those seas, but yeah they were obviously just sitting there waiting to get stung so later it could be justified it in congress and on national TV. America never allowed those missile bases to exist to begin with, they just showed up but Kennedy solved it.

  • @Ansset0
    @Ansset011 ай бұрын

    Blurred images. Politely FU

  • @ghostdance56

    @ghostdance56

    11 ай бұрын

    It's the early 1960's sonny, get a life for god's sake. LOL

  • @gomadgom2170
    @gomadgom21702 ай бұрын

    "Aggresive built up" in Cuba? What's the American military base around the world and misiles american built up in Europe? Disneyland amusement?

  • @mikeveis6393
    @mikeveis63933 ай бұрын

    It's the End of the World As We Know It, like the song by R.E.M. (1988)

  • @Ricken2022
    @Ricken20229 ай бұрын

    So by the USA putting nuclear missiles in Turkey, didn’t they start this nuclear threat.

  • @AbdlazezMBouni
    @AbdlazezMBouni11 ай бұрын

    Compare with the Ukraine 🇺🇦 crisis right now

  • @davidburke2697

    @davidburke2697

    11 ай бұрын

    it's almost the exact opposite.......JFK said : get rid of those weapons....hero. Putin said : get rid of those weapons.....madman

  • @Alec72HD

    @Alec72HD

    10 ай бұрын

    Fun fact. Nikita Khruschev was a Governor of Ukraine before he became the Supreme Ruler of entire Soviet Union. And once again it is Ukraine pushing world towards nuclear Armageddon. Also it was Khruschev who annexed Crimea from Russia and assigned it to his home state of Ukraine.

  • @realnaveen
    @realnaveen11 ай бұрын

    This factual video is of great significance in relation to present war of provocation and reckless expansion of hegemony. If Cuba crisis can mutually de-escalate so can Ukraine crisis. President Putin is best ever and will always be! Most amazing and strong leader!

  • @stevehartman1730
    @stevehartman17307 ай бұрын

    Propaganda. JFK made agreement w Kruschev if they pulled the missles out of Cuba wed pull our Pershing missles out of Turkey. Out of the entire cabinet JFK offered diplomacy all others wanted to inade Cuba if we had there would have ben war.with USSR.

  • @zmajodnocaja5088
    @zmajodnocaja508811 ай бұрын

    QUESTION: WHY WAS THE USSR AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO EUROPE AND AMERICA IN 1945 AND SUPPOSEDLY NOT A THREAT TO GERMANY IN 1941? AND WHY DID AMERICA HELP THE USSR ENSLAVE HALF OF EUROPE?

  • @benediktmorak4409

    @benediktmorak4409

    11 ай бұрын

    one simple word: POLITICS, as it suited the USA. That's why the Japanese Emperor NEVER was -dragged - to Nuremberg. Because the USA needed and alley in the Far East. History was and is not what we, the - unwashed masses - will be shown...

  • @sydmccreath4554

    @sydmccreath4554

    11 ай бұрын

    DAMN GOOD question. I bet any answers you get won’t be anywhere near the truth.

  • @jys76

    @jys76

    11 ай бұрын

    The perspective of a new conflict on European soil maybe ?

  • @meinich5488

    @meinich5488

    11 ай бұрын

    Try to read some history books. The Soviets had the dream to rule over the whole Europe, under a communist system. They did quite a lot to achieve, I assure you. Not that the USA either wanted influence, but at this time they were still a democracy. The SU was a tyrannic dictatorship of the communist party, ever asked why so many people tried to escape?

  • @benediktmorak4409

    @benediktmorak4409

    11 ай бұрын

    @@meinich5488 i don't need to read books. i am old enough and was around when these things happened. AND books are most of the time written by the winners. and they always see their - good side -only.

  • @brandonl6196
    @brandonl61969 ай бұрын

    This is pretty much talks about everything else in the Cold War but the Cuban missile crisis. Crappy documentary

  • @chad3452
    @chad345211 ай бұрын

    yeah our government knew qe had more nukes thanrussia us hadnore firepower and a logistics advantage but for whatever reason we were too scared of russia after cuba

  • @tellmemoreplease9231

    @tellmemoreplease9231

    11 ай бұрын

    Stop conflating Russia with the Soviet Union.

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    11 ай бұрын

    @@tellmemoreplease9231 Well to be fair the USSR WAS "Russo-centric".

  • @Texan-mx5ct
    @Texan-mx5ct11 ай бұрын

    Wapakoneta Ohio please stand up

  • @sydmccreath4554

    @sydmccreath4554

    11 ай бұрын

    Utterly meaningless to 90% of people reading the comments 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @FidelCastro404
    @FidelCastro40411 ай бұрын

    US is a warmonger

  • @Eazy-ERyder

    @Eazy-ERyder

    11 ай бұрын

    The GREATEST country in the world

  • @ThisNinjaSays_

    @ThisNinjaSays_

    11 ай бұрын

    Anglo-Americans won't rest until the rest of the world dances to their tune. Their bloodlust is insatiable.

  • @alanaadams7440
    @alanaadams744011 ай бұрын

    We lost 58000 men and women who died for Nothing

  • @collinsjean2422

    @collinsjean2422

    11 ай бұрын

    58000 men no women on the frontline

  • @bone3594

    @bone3594

    11 ай бұрын

    Our troops died for Freedom's cause.

  • @bone3594

    @bone3594

    11 ай бұрын

    If not for the Vietnam War Communism would had spread as far south as Australia.

  • @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    @walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

    11 ай бұрын

    @@bone3594 You not noticed Ron? The globalists have imported "world communism 2.0" to Australia and the west already.

  • @catchcan221

    @catchcan221

    10 ай бұрын

    No American women died. Millions of Vietnamese men and women however did die. People are so used to saying “men and women” that they apply it to every situation regardless of circumstance.

  • @nigelbenn4642
    @nigelbenn46426 ай бұрын

    The definition of hypocrisy, USA leave ICBMs in UK = OK. Russia leaves ICBMs in Cuba = Bad. I mean the irony

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