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…showed last 75 words of 1276 total…proposal, but it accepted the removal of the missiles under UN supervision. Kennedy promised not to invade Cuba and stopped the blockade. On October 28, Khrushchev agreed. The crisis was at an end. The missiles were removed and the sites demolished. The crisis was the closest the world had ever come to global nuclear war. Those thirteen days left the world in awe of the determination and responsibility of the United States and its young president.