The Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Cuban Missile Crisis:
- The Cuban missile crisis started October 15th,1962 and ended October 27th.
- American
spy plane was secretly taking pictures of the nuclear missile sites
being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
- Kennedy decided
yo place a blockade of ships around Cuba. The aim of this "Quarantine"
as he called it was to prevent the soviets from bringing in military
supplies.
- The soviet union soon after was desperately behind the united
stats in the arms race.
