In October of 1962, The United States learned that the U.S.S.R had secretly installed missiles and missile bases and Cuba, which is about 90 miles away from Florida, which is extremely close to the United States. President Kennedy demanded that the U.S.S.R remove the missiles from Cuba at once. The U.S.S.R. offered to the the missiles from Cuba, providing if the Unties States would diamantle its military bases in Turkey. The United States refused.
After a week of extreme tension between the two nations,Nikita Khrushchev, the Premier of the U.S.S.R., agreed to remove the missiles.
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