The Begining of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cold War was a nuclear arms race between Soviet Union and the United States.   It happened between 1945 and 1991. The United States was trying to stop the spread of Communism, so we started building nuclear weapons to strengthen the military.  In response, the Soviets built nuclear weapons to fight back against the U.S.  The Soviet’s nuclear missiles couldn’t reach America, so in May 1961, they made a deal with Cuba to build military bases in Cuba. The Soviets started bringing Nuclear weapons to Cuba, and that started the Cuban Missile Crisis (Kennedy).  There were three people that played the biggest roles in the crisis, and they were President John Kennedy of the US, Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, and Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba.