The _________ was the closest the U.S. ever came to nuclear war.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day political and military standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962 over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. It is considered the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed CIA-led attempt to overthrow the Cuban government in 1961, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was a peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War in 1848.

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