Opravy

The cuban missile crisis took place during the cold war in October 1962.

First of all, in 1959, Fidel Castro seized power on the Island of Cuba.

He decided to nationalize the American companies settled in Cuba and chased out his Cuban opponents.

The Americans replied to these nationalisations with an embargo which meant the stop of economic, financial and trade relations with Cuba.

This situation would later push Cuba into the arms of the Soviets.

In the middle of the month of October 1962, American spy-planes discovered that missiles directly threatening the integrity of the United States were installed by the U.S.S.R. on the island of Cuba.

Khrouchtchev, the Soviet leader at that time installed these missiles to protect Cuba from a possible American invasion because in 1961 they had tried a landing but failed.

On October the 22nd of the same year, president Kennedy ordered the naval encirclement of the island.

Then, began a period of extreme tensions between the two world's leading powers.

Finally, the USSR surrendered and the crisis was solved by the withdrawal of the Soviet missiles based in Cuba, compensated by the withdrawal of the americans missiles based in Turkey.

Furthermore, the U.S. made a commitment not to invade Cuba.