Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris
during the 2016 presidential campaign most of america s allies around the world were freaking out more or less about the potential presidency of donald trump, but one ally in particular was super-duper freaking out. japan s leader, shinzo abe. shinzo abe, the japanese government, all mainstream japanese politics were scared and gob smacked and weirded out. by the way, donald trump constantly scapegoated japan, blasting the trade deal, saying japan should develop its own nuclear weapons. and then once trump was actually elected, an unusual thing happened. shinzo abe managed to get himself to be one of the very first leaders who spoke to the president after his victory. there s supposed to be an order in which the president-elect is