Even with Nikita Khrushchev's desire to improve relations with the West and reduce tensions,military events occasionally escalated almost to the point of war,as in 1962,when:
A) the United States installed a new generation of intercontinental missiles in Turkey.
B) a Chinese military unit,with U.S.approval,crossed into Siberia and declared it free and independent of the Soviet Union.
C) a U.S.nuclear submarine secretly entered the Soviet port of Minsk and was captured as it attempted to leave.
D) the Soviet Union attempted to install intermediate-range ballistic missiles and other offensive military equipment in Cuba.
E) the United States attempted to destroy the Berlin Wall by planting explosives in secret tunnels under Checkpoint Charlie.
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