Cuban_Missile_Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis For a period of thirteen days in October of 1962 the United States held its breath in fear of nuclear war. The Cuban missile crisis is considered by most to be the closest two countries came to nuclear war, apart from the nuclear bombing of Japan. The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, Cuba, and partly Turkey. The U.S. and Turkey initiated the crisis with the placing of nuclear weapons in Turkey. In response to this action the Soviet Union supplied nuclear weapons and supplies for building nuclear bases, to Cuba. On October 14, 1962 the first nuclear missiles in Cuba where nuclear, october, cuba, crisis, war, union, turkey, soviet, countries, weapons, united, time, states, spy, president, missile, kennedy, cuban, came, between, bases, 1962, very, u-2, two, though, thirteen, tension, supplies, supplied, spotted, shown, shot, sent, scary, saying, response, resolve, premier, planes, plane, placing, pictures, period, people, peacefully, peaceful, partly, outcome, one