How Did The Cuban Missile Crisis Nearly Lead The U.S And Soviet Union (Ussr) To The Brink Of World War Three?, Why Did Government Officials Struggle W

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly lead the U.S and Soviet Union (USSR) to the brink of World War Three?

Why did government officials struggle with the decision on what to do with Soviet missiles in Cuba?

 

Moving existing nuclear weapons to locations from which they could reach American targets was one." A second reason that Soviet missiles were deployed to Cuba was because Khrushchev wanted to bring West Berlin, controlled by the American, British and French within Communist East Germany, into the Soviet orbit.

Cuba calls it the October Crisis. It was a proxy conflict around Cuba. It happened when the Soviet Union (USSR) began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962. Together with the earlier Berlin Blockade, this crisis is seen as one of the most important confrontations of the Cold War.