Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union from October 16 to 28, 1962, over the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis was sparked by the Soviet Union's deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba in response to US missiles in Italy and Turkey, and the US government's attempt to overthrow Castro's government. US President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade to prevent further missiles from reaching Cuba, and an agreement was eventually reached in which the Soviet Union dismantled its missiles in Cuba in exchange for a US public declaration not to invade Cuba again and the removal of US missiles from Turkey. The crisis was narrowly avoided, and it led to the creation of the Moscow-Washington hotline and a reduction in US-Soviet tensions.learn more on wikipedia