The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the closest the

world ever came to full-scale nuclear war. When the Soviet

Union placed offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, President

Kennedy interpreted the act as one of hostility that would not

be tolerated. However, the situation was blown way out or

proportion by the president, American media, and ultimately

the citizens of the United States. The Soviet Premier, Nikita

Khrushchev, was reacting to the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba,

US Missile installations along the Turkey/Soviet border, and

the clear anti-Communist policy of the United States.

Khrushchev was born in Kalinovka in southwestern Russia.

He was raised in a poor family whose income depended solely on

the coal mining job of his father. In 1918 he joined the

Bolsheviks and attended a Communist school the following year.

He moved to Moscow in 1929 and began working for the Communist

government. He gained much praise and advanced quickly. By

1939, he was a member of the Politburo. He became Secretary

of the of the Central Committee in 1951. After Stalin died in

1953, the USSR went through two more premiers before

or images of Stalin and renaming most things previously named

to invade Cuba to destroy the missiles (which would have meant

letters to Kennedy on October 24, 1962 in which he explained

public from having the truth. It looks almost like a blatant

agreed to remove the missiles and allow the US to have a

fire with fire, but the government and media prevented the

reiterating that they would quickly dismantle the Cuban

without any US promise to remove their missiles or not to

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