Cuban Missile Creesis

The Cuban Missile Creesis, forby kent as the Caribbean Creesis (Roushie: Карибский кризис, tr. Karibskij krizis), or the Missile Scare, wis a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation atween the Unitit States an the Soviet Union concernin American ballistic missile deployment in Italy an Turkey wi consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is eften conseedert the closest the Cauld War came to escalatin intae a full-scale nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Creesis
Pairt o the Cauld War
Soviet R-12 intermediate-range nuclear ballistic missile (NATO designation SS-4) in Moscow
Date October 16–28, 1962 (naval blockade o the island o Cuba endit November 20, 1962) Location Cuba Result Widrawal o the Soviet Union's nuclear missiles frae Cuba Widrawal o American nuclear missiles frae Turkey an Italy Agreement wi the Soviet Union that the Unitit States would niver invade Cuba withoot direct provocation Creaution o a nuclear hetline atween the Unitit States an the Soviet Union
Belligerents
Soviet Union Cuba Supportit bi: Warsaw Pact	Unitit States Italy Turkey Supportit bi: NATO
Commanders an leaders
Nikita Khrushchev Anastas Mikoyan Rodion Malinovsky Issa Pliyev Georgy Abashvili Fidel Castro Raúl Castro Che Guevara	John F. Kennedy Robert McNamara Maxwell D. Taylor Curtis LeMay George Whelan Anderson Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Amintore Fanfani Cemal Gürsel
Casualties an losses
None	1 U-2 spy aircraft shot doun 1 aircraft damaged 1 killed