After this event, one country’s government restricted its air traffic, ending a wave of emigration that was part of the “golden exile”. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the placement of nuclear weapons in a certain country.
ANSWER: Cuban Missile Crisis [or October Crisis of 1962, or Caribbean Crisis, or Missile Scare]
[10h] This operation, part of the Cuban golden exile, saw the evacuation of 14,000 children to the United States following the Cuban revolution. This operation ended after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and many Cuban immigrants were instead re-routed to Spain.
ANSWER: Operation Peter Pan [or Operación Pedro Pan]
[10m] A later Cuban mass emigration was this 1980 event, which followed an asylum-seeker crisis at the Peruvian embassy in Havana. This boatlift led to 125,000 Cubans migrating to the United States.
ANSWER: Mariel boatlift [or éxodo del Mariel]