This event led to the establishment of the hotline between the United States and Moscow.
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Death of Joseph Stalin
World War I
Cuban Missile Crisis which occurred in October 1962. Communication between President John Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was very cumbersome so the hotline was installed in August 1963.
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