The<span> khrushchev explain why missiles were placed in cuba and why they could now be removed t</span>he missiles were supposedly placed because the Khrshchev thought the USSR was a threatened by the US missles in Turkey. Khrushchev was agreed to withdraw the missiles in exchange for a US promise not to invade Cuba and a promise that the US would withdraw missiles from Turkey, near the Soviet heartland.
The missiles were placed in cuba because Fidel Castro was in war with the Soviet Union. the missiles were removed because John F. Kennedy talk and convenced <span>Khrushchev to remove the missiles</span>
It was alleged that in August of 1964, the North Vietnamese attacked American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, allowing Johnson to escalate the Vietnam War.
