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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
-The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.
-In late April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range missiles in Cuba
-A deployment in Cuba would double the Soviet strategic arsenal and provide a real defence to a potential U.S. attack against the Soviet Union.
-On October 15, 1962 when reconnaissance photographs revealed Soviet missiles under construction in Cuba which were spotted from a US U2 spy plane
-Kennedy immediately organized the EX-COMM,twelve most important advisors to handle the crisis
-Cuba being very close to US meant that if the Soviets decided to launch missiles they would hit in a few seconds
-The US set up a naval blockade of Cuba
-This caused everyone to be very tense because the Soviets continued to bring their ships to the blockade line
-Because of President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted.
-But at the last minute the Soviet ships turned around to avoid a nuclear crisis
-In late April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range missiles in Cuba
-A deployment in Cuba would double the Soviet strategic arsenal and provide a real defence to a potential U.S. attack against the Soviet Union.
-On October 15, 1962 when reconnaissance photographs revealed Soviet missiles under construction in Cuba which were spotted from a US U2 spy plane
-Kennedy immediately organized the EX-COMM,twelve most important advisors to handle the crisis
-Cuba being very close to US meant that if the Soviets decided to launch missiles they would hit in a few seconds
-The US set up a naval blockade of Cuba
-This caused everyone to be very tense because the Soviets continued to bring their ships to the blockade line
-Because of President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted.
-But at the last minute the Soviet ships turned around to avoid a nuclear crisis
Summary
When the Soviets realized that their missiles wouldn't hit America in the same amount of time as the American missiles would hit them they decided to move to a closer locations, being Cuba. When photographs of Soviet missiles being assembled in Cuba were taken by a US spy plane so the US set of a naval blockade. The Soviets kept coming up to the block and coming very close to nuclear war but at the last minute they turned away.