Question

This newspaper headline describes an event in U.S. history.

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Which course of action taken by the United States is represented by this headline?


The U.S. sends troops to Korea to fight in the Korean War.


The U.S. intervenes in the Vietnam War to stop the spread of communism.


The U.S. negotiates with the Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba.


The U.S. joins the United Nations in peacekeeping efforts.

Answer 1

The U.S. negotiates with the Soviet Union to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba.

This describes the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962): the Kennedy administration imposed a naval "quarantine" of Cuba and negotiated with Khrushchev to have Soviet missiles removed.