Cuban Missile Crisis

Basically, The Cuban Missile Crisis was almost a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. I think the Soviet Union saw the U.S as a threat because they were the main ones prepared to first use the nuclear bombs if the U.S were to ever invade or attack their territory. As you can see, the Soviet Union only had the power to take out Europe on impact but, the U.S on the other hand, had the power to take out the Soviet Union with one blow. Premier Nikita Khrushchev had the idea of placing intermediate range missiles in Cuba. A person named Fidel Castro had also wanted to defend his island nation from U.S invasions or incoming attacks. They probably was afraid that after the failed Bay Of Pigs attack in 1961 that they would probably do it again soon. The two of them had quickly worked together in the summer of 1962 to secretly build and store these missiles. This upset the U.S greatly. This infamous crisis began on October 15, 1962. Soon after like the next day, the president (John F.Kennedy) had found out about this and informed a specialized group consisting of twelve members called the EX-COMM to handle this crisis. This plan had worked impressively because while doing this, the president had also demanded that the Soviet Union would immediately remove all of their range missiles from Cuba. As both of the countries tensions began to rise and lower down, they both finally came to an agreement with each other. (The agreement was that the Soviet Union would remove the missiles if the United States would not invade,attack, or interfere with the Soviet Union.)