Cuban Missile Crisis

Explain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

-->The Cuban missile crisis was a confrontation during the cold war between the Soviet union and the united states regarding the soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba.They where placed their in case so that they would be prepared planned by the united states.the crisis began because after the united states invasion of bay of pigs invasion and that the u.s. reconnaissance imagery revealing soviet nuclear missile installations on the island where presented to the us president john f Kennedy after the soviet premier announced that the missile installations would be dismantled.


What happened and why is it considered “the hottest moment in the Cold War”?

-->It was considered the hottest moment in the cold war because it came close to being a nuclear war.