"It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisp
here as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union." Which president found himself in a "showdown" with Nikita Khrushchev over the issue of Soviet missile bases in Cuba? A) John F. Kennedy B) Harry S. Truman C) Lyndon B. Johnson D) Dwight Eisenhower
This was the famous Cuban missile crisis that occurred during Kennedy's presidency. Since the United States had their own bases in Europe close to Russia, Soviets decided to open up their own base in Cuba with missiles in case that the United States started a war. There was a huge problem about this and many people believed a war was going to begin.</span>
