Cuban Missle Crisis
The US started to build missle bases in Turkey and Italy which could attack Moscow.
JFK formed the EX COMM which was a group of people designated to handle the situation at hand.
The US demanded that the Soviet Union dismantle the bases in exchange of the US agreeing to not invade Cuba.
Fidel Castro was confident that the US was going to attempt a second attack.
There was a lot of fear that a nuclear war would break out.
The US was very close to launching a missle right towards Cuba.
Many aircrafts were shot down by the Cubans.
On October 28 Krushchev began to dismantle the bases, which ended the crisis.
Ronald Reagans Strategic Defense Initiative
Initiated on March 23, 1983.
Purpose was to develop an anti ballistic missle system.
Also to protect us from missle attacks.
Many people were against it and it was thought that it was going to make the Soviet Union even more mad at us.
They had a plan to make this work.
We planned on intercepting ballistic missiles as they were still flying in space above the earth.
Research and development were being done.
This failed at the time.
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