Cuban Missle Crisis

-The Cuban Missile crisis was when the world was very close to having a nuclear was. At this time the united states alert level was the highest of all time, and Cuba was also ready to use battlefield nuclear weapons in case it got invaded. There were two men who saved this war (canceled it), these two men are John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev.

John F. Kennedy organized the Ex-comm group which was a group of his twelve most important advisor's which handled the crisis. After seven days of guarded and intense debate within the upper echelons of government, Kennedy concluded to impose a naval quarantine around Cuba. He wanted to prevent the arrival of more Soviet offensive weapons on the island.