{"id":7884,"date":"2026-10-22T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:20:22","slug":"cuban-missile-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7884","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Missile Crisis Occurred in 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10019\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10019\" class=\"wp-image-10019 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/John-Kennedy-e1744134406612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"128\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Kennedy<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cuban Missile Crisis began when President Kennedy in 1962 demanded that missiles placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union be removed<\/strong>. The United States also placed an embargo around the island to prevent other arms entering Cuba. On October 28 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics started to remove the weapons. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1961-1968\/cuban-missile-crisis#:~:text=The%20Cuban%20Missile%20Crisis%20of,came%20closest%20to%20nuclear%20conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban Missile Crisis began when President Kennedy in 1962 demanded that missiles placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union be removed. The United States also placed an embargo around the island to prevent other arms entering Cuba. On October 28 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics started to remove the weapons. Older children could learn <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7884' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4448,670,3144,3145,3146,5964,1283,407],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4448","tag-cuba","tag-cuban-missile-crisis","tag-kennedy","tag-missiles","tag-october-22","tag-union-of-soviet-socialist-republics","tag-united-states","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29810,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions\/29810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}