Cuban missile crisis

Crisis arising on 22 October 1962 when US President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance flights had revealed nuclear missiles in Cuba, sent from the Soviet Union. Kennedy ordered a 'quarantine' of all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba. He stated that a missile attack from Cuba would bring 'a full retaliatory response' on the Soviet Union. Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles and bombers from Cuba on 2 November, ending the most dangerous global crisis since 1945.