Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban missile was the conflict of U.S President John F Kennedy and Russian leader Nikta Khrushchev in 1962 over the placing of nuclear arms in Cuba. When Cuba gained independence in 1934, dictators like Fidel Castro took an anti-American platform and Cuba became a Marxist communist government. Khrushchev decided to use his new ally to place nuclear arms near the U.S. this was in reaction to Kennedy putting nukes in Turkey, so close to Moscow. Oct 1962: Soviets nukes were sent off to Cuba and discovered by American Satellites. Kennedy would not allow nukes so close to American soil and the U.S and Russia were at the verge of war. The conflict diffused causing Russia to withdraw, Kennedy to remove nukes from Turkey. This is the closest America has ever come to nuclear War.