Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was an large event, even if there wasn't any major war. It was an event that led close to being a start of a nuclear war. Khrushchev had built missiles in Cuba secretly. By him doing this the United States saw it as a threat to them. The missiles were only spotted because of an American spy plane. Once president John F. Kennedy found out about the missiles in Cuba he demanded for them to be removed by the Soviet Union. Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba, but only if the United States promised to not invade Cuba itself. Then came along a letter which read, that the United States are to remove the missiles in Turkey. The reason for doing this is for the exchange of the Soviets removing the missiles in Cuba. John F. Kennedy told the Soviets to remove the missiles in Cuba first. The Soviets agreed to this and removed their missiles. This was the hottest point of the Cold war. The reason for this being because, everyone was so scared that there would be a nuclear war. The people were more alert then ever before in history. Everybody wanted to know what would happen next. Everyone knew that there was a very small amount between what was going on, and a start to a nuclear war. To calm everything down John F. Kennedy made an extremely smart choice, so that the nuclear war would be prevented. John F. Kennedy's choice was to put the missiles away, instead of attacking one another.