Cuban Misile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, it was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962 during the Cold War, it is named in different places, in Russia “The Caribbean Crisis” , in Cuba, “The October Crisis” and in the U.S. “Cuban Missile Crisis”.

Cuba and the USSR, decided to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, aiming Florida, the U.S. noticed an decided to get them removal, this moment was the closest point of becoming the Cold War to a Nuclear War.

The U.S. feared communism, and Cuba had opened to Russia, also it defy the Monroe Doctrine, as European Powers could not get involved in America.

President Kennedy engaged Operation Mongoose, operations against Cuba, as the economic embargo till now. 

The problem continued as Curtis LeMay, an Air Force General, presented President Kennedy a bombing in September and there was a military movement in the Guantanamo Naval Base. Then Cuba had the evidence that U.S. pretended the invasion, then U.S. announced a military exercise in the Caribbean.

Then Castro and Khrushchev agreed to place again missiles in Cuba, and Khrushchev feeling the U.S. invasion imminent and that loosing Cuba would be a catastrophic to communism