The mayor confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union did not happened in Europe. It took place during the call of the "Missile Crisis" in Cuba in October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States" armed forces were at their highest state of quickness ever. Soviet Union commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield and nuclear weapons to defend the island in case it was invaded. Thanks to two brave men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who were brave enough to prevent the war.
The center of the conflict started when the Soviet Union established a base of military operations and the heart of oxidant.
This step generated the conflicts between super potential. One side was the United States and the other side was the Soviet Union and China. The crisis almost became World War 3 and the 1st nuclear.
War. This would have produced a catastrophe that would of affected the people who lived in Cuba. Therefore the first objective was to disappear any eventual atomic bombing.
In 1961 Fidel Castro proclaimed officially a social character of his government. With this he made a radical tour of the original program of the Cuban revolution. At the same time, he tried to establish a social soviet. This way they provided to Cuba enormous economic requirements, military sources, and an all kinds of military weapons including nuclear missiles. They initiated the construction in Cuba of the ramps to throw missiles that are capable to land in the southern part of the United States in minutes.
The main object of the Soviet Union was to modified and balance the atomic weapons displayed in the war, till then inconvenient for the Russ. .
The crisis began on October 15,1962 for the United States, when they examinant photographs reveled Soviet missiles under construction in Cuba. The next day they informed president John F.
