Cuban Missle Crisis
In the Cuban Missile Crisis leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962. The political feud was over the instillation of nuclear-armed soviet missiles on Cuba. The united states quickly created a blockade around Cuba and made the presence of missiles publicized. The U.S. was ready to neutralize the target and the world was in fear of a full scale nuclear war. disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s (1894-1971) offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey. This act of aggression did not go unnoticed by the world, many people were scared of their lives ending in a nuclear war.