What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Cuban Missile Crisis | place = [[Cuba]], [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]] | partof = the [[Cold War]] | image = Soviet-R-12-nuclear-ballistic missile.jpg | image_size = 277px | caption = Soviet R-12 ballistic missile | date = 16 October 1962 - <br>28 October 1962 | result = *Peace memorandum between the United States and Cuba in which the United States would not ever invade Cuba without direct provocation and Cuba will not aim missiles again at the USA without direct provocation. | combatant1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Cuba (WFB 2000).jpg|size=25px}} '''[[Cuba]]''' | combatant3 = | combatant2 = {{flag|United States}} | commander1 = '''[[Fidel Castro]]'''<br>[[Juan Almeida Bosque]]<br>[[Che Guevara]]<br>[[Efigenio Ameijeiras]]<br>[[Raúl Castro]]<br>[[Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado]] | commander2 = '''[[John F. Kennedy]]'''<br>[[Curtis LeMay]]<br>[[Alexsys Soriano]]<br>[[Maxwell Davenport Taylor|Maxwell Taylor]]<br>[[Lyndon B. Johnson]]<br>[[Robert Kennedy]]<br>[[Robert McNamara]] | units1 = [[BMTE|Brigada Movil de Tropas Especiales]] | units2 = [[United States Army]] | strength1 = 123,000 | strength2 = 180,000 }} The '''Cuban Missile Crisis''' was an event that happened in 1962. It was a serious confrontation between the [[Soviet Union]], the [[United States]], and [[Cuba]] during the [[Cold War]]. In [[Russia]], it is known as the '''Caribbean Crisis'''. Cuba calls it the '''October Crisis'''. The crisis started because the Soviet Union was building sites for [[Ballistic missile|ballistic missiles]] in Cuba, so that they could target the United States. This caused the United States and the Soviet Union to create a [[Proxy war|proxy]] [[conflict]] directed at Cuba, causing them to indirectly attack each other because of Cuba. Together with the earlier [[Berlin Blockade]], this crisis is seen as one of the most important confrontations of the [[Cold War]]. It may have been the moment when the Cold War came close