Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a clear threat from the USSR where Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba, and the US was already angered by Cuba and their new socialist regime. After failed attempts to oust Fidel Castro from power, the most major failure being the unsuccessful invasion of the exiled Cubans at the Bay of Pigs, the Americans now had a desire to invade Cuba to remove the Soviet power. The Cubans had allowed the Soviets to bring missiles to Cuba because they believed it was their duty to be comrades and cooperate in order to protect their own socialist ideas from the Americans. However, the Americans used their naval power to surround Cuba and try to prevent the Soviets from sending their nuclear missiles to Cuba, but the Soviet transports continued on course. This meant the only way the Americans could stop the cargo boats was to seize them, which would be an act of war. While it seemed that this new war was inevitable, it took many rushed telegrams between president Kennedy and the Soviet leader Khrushchev to prevent their armies from a full-scale assault.