During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev managed to avert a disaster. Which disaster did they avert?

President Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this "quarantine," he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. He enforced the removal of the missiles already there and the destruction of the sites.

theodore roosevelt challenged william to a duel, whoever won, got their policy sent to congress. it ended up in a stalemate, and both men were injured and sent to the hospital.

an expansion is one of two basic business cycle phases; the other is contraction. the transition from expansion to contraction is a peak, and the changeover from contraction to expansion is a trough.