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Although NATO had similar missiles in Turkey pointed straight at the Soviet Union,
盡管北大西洋公約組織在土耳其也部署了類似的導彈，直指蘇聯
the US prepared for war — including possible yet another invasion of Cuba (this time with American forces).
美國做好了戰爭準備，包括可能發起另一次對古巴的入侵，當然是用美軍部隊
Finally, common sense won out.
但是最后還是常識獲勝了
Kennedy presented Khrushchev with an ultimatum: get the missiles out.
肯尼迪向赫魯曉夫下了最后通牒：撤出導彈
This Khrushchev did, no doubt saving the world yet again from a third world war complete with mutually assured destruction.
赫魯曉夫照做了，無疑也挽救了世界，避免發起第三次世界大戰造成世界毀滅
Khrushchev tried to portray the Soviet retreat as a victory.
赫魯曉夫試著將蘇聯的撤退描繪成一個勝利
He claimed that the US had recognized Communist Cuba's legitimacy despite the Monroe Doctrine,
他宣稱，雖然還有門羅主義，但是美國已經認可了共產黨古巴的合法性
by requiring only that the missiles (and not the Cuban regime) be removed.
條件就是俄國撤出導彈而不是撤出古巴政權
But the USSR's military leaders and their hardline supporters didn't care about Khrushchev's fancy logic.
但是蘇聯的軍事領導和他們的強硬派支持者并不在乎赫魯曉夫的荒誕邏輯
They knew who had really won out in Cuba, and it wasn't them.
他們知道古巴事件中真正占上風的并非自己
Two years later, Khrushchev would be booted out of office and replaced by the glorious Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.
兩年后，赫魯曉夫被趕下了臺，取而代之的是列昂尼德·伊里奇·勃列日涅夫
From the Cuban Missile Crisis on, the Cold War took two basic forms: the war in Southeast Asia, which we will take up in the next lecture,
從古巴導彈危機開始，冷戰有了兩種基本形式，東亞的戰爭，也是我們下一講要講的內容
and the arms race, which we will take up here.
和軍備競賽，也就是我們接下來要講的
