The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a diplomatic conflict that lasted for thirteen days. It came about after the US discovered that the Soviet Union was building missile bases in Cuba, which is very close to America. President Kennedy was forced to react to stop the threat of missile attack. Kennedy had to tread carefully because any overzealous assaults could have led to a Soviet attack from the fully functional Cuban bases.
During the Cold War, so strained were the relationships between the Soviet Union and the US that all diplomatic correspondence had to be very guarded and cautious. Ther…