Question

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 1

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917-63) notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. Following this news, many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s (1894-1971) offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.

Answer 2

Answer:

• It is a war type situation between USSR and US during cold war.

Explanation:

• Cuba was an alley of the Soviet Union (Presently known as Russia) and received both diplomatic and financial aid from it.
• In April 1961, the leader of Soviet Union was worried that US would invade communist ruled Cuba and overthrow its President, Fidel Cestro.
• In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev the leader of Soviet Union decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base and placed nuclear missile in Cuba.
• The ins.tallation of these weapons put the US for the first time, under fire from very close range.
• When the US President, John F Kennedy got this news, he and his advisors were reluctant to do anything. That might lead to full scale nuclear war between two countries.
• Kennedy ordered American war ships to intercept any Soviet ships heading to Cuba.
• This whole incident came to be known as Cuban Missile Crisis.