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Missile crisis
On October 1962, an America can U-2 plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by Soviet on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union or Cuba to know they had discovered the missiles. Kennedy then decided to place a naval block a for a ring of ships to make sure the Soviet Union didn't bring anymore military supplies.
President Kennedy soon demanded the removal of the missiles that were already there an the destruction of the sites.
Soon they dismantled the weapons with a deal. The deal was for the united stated not to invade Cuba, but the arms race wasn't over!