Cuban+Missle+Crisis+(1962)+group3

=Cuban Missile Crisis=

Overview
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war." In 1962 the United States was winning the arms race. At this time many different countries were trying to build bigger and better weapons and bombs. The Soviet Union was against the US. The Soviet Union did not have as good of weapons as America did so they planned to plant short range missiles in Cuba to be closer to the United States. The president of Cuba at the time, Fidel Castro, was fearing an attack from the US so he allowed the Soviet Union to place missiles in cuba.

Central Point
President Kennedy saw that the missile installations were occurring. He announced it to the public and he wanted to quarantine Cuba. If any missiles were to be fired the United States would assume it is an attack from the soviet Union. They would then fight back at the Soviet Union. All nuclear weapons must be removed from Cuba, requested president Kennedy.

Conclusion
The United States decided to put missiles in Turkey in defense of the Soviet Union. On October 27 the Soviet Union requested the United States remove the missiles from Turkey and then they would remove all missiles from Cuba. America agreed not to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union took all weapons out completely. The tension finally lessened.