Question

define cuban missile crisis

Answer 1

Explanation:

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.

Answer 2

• Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the USSR placed missiles in Cuba. The soviet union missiles were a threat to the USA.
• The US president JOHN F KENNEDY and his advisors were determined to get Khrushchev to remove the missiles and nuclear wepons from Cuba.
• President Kennedy ordered American warships to intercept any Soviet union ships heading to Cuba.
• A conflict between two big powers was imminent and the crisis was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis