Cuban Missile Crisis

In the period of the Cold War, there was a confrontation between the U.S and Soviet Union. They would compete against each other, the creation on nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union would deploy their nuclear weapons in Cuba, they were placed there to protect Cuba from any attacks from the United States (U.S) after the failure of Bay of Pigs Invasion. It started on October 19, 1962, and the Cuban Missile Crisis is often mentioned because it almost caused the begining of a nuclear war between both the U.S and Soviet Union.