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Cuba is an ally of the Soviet Union. In April 1961, the leaders of USSR were worried that U.S.A. would invade communist ruled Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, the President of Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of U.S.S.R, placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Soviet Union missiles were dangerous for the cities of America. American President John. F. Kennedy and his advisers were determined to get Khrushchev to remove the missiles and nuclear weapons from Cuba. President Kennedy ordered American warships to intercept any Soviet Union ship heading to Cuba. A conflict between the two big powers was imminent and this crisis was known as Cuban Missile Crisis.
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