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Cuban Missile Crisis almost brought another war to America and a nuclear seige between the United States and the USSR but how did it affect America and its people.

{Cuban missile crisis Internet} When Kennedy received the U-2 surveillance of the Cuban missile site that was under construction by the Russians. He was extremely worried because of the site was so close to America and also the nuclear warheads had a grater range of travel. They were at the end of the second world war Russia captured most of the u-2 specialists and American captured nuclear specialists from Germany. So Kennedy expected that the Russians nuclear missile were able to travel a longer distance that in turn worried Kennedy in the first place, but now since the Russians had a base so close to America. Kennedy had very few options to chose from was either an invasion, a direct air strike, or a settlement threw the United Nations. (Encyclopedia Britannica published 1988) He tried to resolve threw the United......

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