The Building Up of the Cold War Continued...

The Cuban Missile Crisis

1962, the point of the most tension during the Cold War, this was when full out nuclear war seemed the most likely. The United States found out that the Soviet Union was building underground sites in Cuba for the launching of offensive missiles that would reach the US in minutes. Kennedy responded by announcing that he would set up a naval blockade of Cuba until the removal of these missiles. Khrushchev agreed after days of tension in exchange for Kennedy’s pledge not to invade Cuba and to later on remove some missiles from Turkey.

"Hawks vs. Doves: The Joint Chiefs and the Cuban Missile Crisis." Government Book Talk. N.p., 18 Oct. 2012. Web. 23 Mar. 2016.