The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban missile crisis was during the Cold War. It was when the Soviet Union was behind the US in the arms race and the US had missiles that could reach the Soviet Union but they only had missiles that could bomb Europe. The Soviet Union decided to try and put missiles on a closer range to the US and Cuba agreed because Fidel Castro was afraid of another invasion. Eventually the US found out because of photographs they got from a spy.

This was concidered "the hottest moment in the Cold War" because this was as close as the US and the Soviet Union got to bombing each other and starting a nuclear war. In order to combat the crisis Kennedy organized the EX-COMM which is a group of 12 of his most important advisors to handle the crisis. After a meeting he decided to put a naval quarantine around Cuba. Then he wrote a letter to the Soviets about taking their missiles out of Cuba. they had a meeting and agreed and the Soviets took their missiles out of Cuba.