The Cuban Missle Crisis The world will never be the same since October of 1962. It is now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S. learned that the Soviets were building nuclear missile bases on Cuba because the Soviets wanted to close the missile gap. Even though the Soviet Union promised they would not attempt to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, they put them there anyway in hopes that the U.S. would not …showed first 75 words of 1312 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1312 total…crisis, but they are kept very well hidden from all of us. Works cited Brugioni, Dino A. Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Random House, 1991. Roskin, Michael, and Nicholas Berry. The New World of International Relations. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 1996. Roskin, Michael and Nicholas Berry. An Introduction to International Relations. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 1993. Smoke, Richard. Nuclear Arms Control: Understanding the Arms Race. New York: Walker and Company, 1988.