The Cuban Missile Crisis was something that terrified the whole world. During 1962, from October 16 to October 28, there was such a tensions between the US and the Soviet Union that the situation came that it could escalate to a new world war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a result of the US finding out that the Soviets actually had missiles on the island, directed toward them, and right next door to them. This caused panic in the US, both in the military and at the public, and the country was all ready for a war at any moment. The Soviets were threatening to the US, and the US were threatening to them, and it almost came a situation where the ''red button'' was going to be pressed, but luckily for everyone int he world reason won and that didn't happened.
