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Cuban Missile Crisis
Title: Cuban Missile Crisis
Category: History
Details: Words: 1303 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy’s greatest triumph as President came in 1962, as the world’s two largest superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, edged closer and closer to nuclear war. The Soviet Premier of Russia was caught arming Fidel Castro with nuclear weapons. The confrontation left the world in fear for thirteen long days, with the life of the world on the line.
Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union, secretly ordered the placement of …showed first 75 words of 1303 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1303 total…proposal, but it accepted the removal of the missiles under UN supervision. Kennedy promised not to invade Cuba and stopped the blockade. On October 28, Khrushchev agreed. The crisis was at an end. The missiles were removed and the sites demolished. The crisis was the closest the world had ever come to global nuclear war.
Those thirteen days left the world in awe of the determination and responsibility of the United States and its young president.
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