The soviet union and the united states nearly went to war with each other in 1962 when the united states discovered soviet missiles on the island of cuba. this event, called the cuban missile crisis, was resolved peacefully after several days of negotiations between u. s. and

President Kennedy from the United States and Nikita Khrushchev from the Soviet Union peacefully resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis. American U-2 planes discovered the Soviet Union was going to place nuclear missiles on Cuba to potentially launch on the United States. 

Upon the fall of rome, europe ceased being influenced by the cultures of the mediterranean coast and was more influenced by germanic tribal confederations that had already taken over vast swathes of roman territory, although the influence of rome on the former empire was very strong in legal