The_Cuban_Missile_Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban missile crisis was almost the start of a third world war. There were many events that influenced John F. Kennedy’s decisions. The reactions and results lead to a resolution. The United Stated learned that the Soviets were building nuclear missile bases on Cuba. The Soviet Union promised that they wouldn’t attempt to put nuclear weapons in Cuba, but they put them there anyway. They thought that the United Stated wouldn’t find out. They were wrong. The closest the United States ever came to a nuclear war was under President John F. Kennedy. The Prime minister of the Soviet Union was Nikita Khrushchev who secretly ordered the nuclear warheads to be placed in Cuba. Khrushchev had promised, revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, the protection of Cuba at all times of need. The United States feared that Fidel Castro would establish a communist regime in Cuba and because of this the United States implemented an embargo that cut off all forms of trade between Cuba and the United States. Cuba got aggravated with this and turned to the Soviet Union for aid. Before any of this happened, the United States placed several medium-range nuclear missiles in Turkey. The missiles were across the cuba, united, missiles, states, khrushchev, kennedy, soviet, nuclear, blockade, missile, war, union, ships, promised, anything, u-2, told, removed, planes, castro, wouldn’t, thought, soviets, president, over, out, military, invade, going, didn’t, crisis, announced, almost, about, weapons