The Cuban missile crisis was the mark of the brink of world destruction. President Kennedy and Khrushchev were at the brink of war. However, JFK did some shuttle and backchannel diplomacy, thus avoiding destruction of the entire planet.
Russia put missiles on Cuba. Both Cuba and Russia were communist nations and with the missiles 90 miles from United States coastline JFK demanded that Russia remove the missiles, but Russia refused. JFK responded by placing navy ships off of Cuba and the Cuba Missile Crisis began.
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The US withdrew missiles from Turkey.
From October to November 1962.
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No, During JFK presidency, no real war was happening. The most serious challenge he faced was the Cuban affair, when Russia tried to install missiles in Cuba.
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The Cuban missile crisis was resolved by the USSR agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba and the United States agreeing to remove its missiles from Turkey.
He wasn't able to do much. The Russians were in charge of the missiles on Cuba and not Castro, so it was up to them to respond to JFK.
John F. Kennedy Actually there were never any missiles fired during the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK instituted a blockade to stop Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba, the Soviets backed off without a missile being fired.
Turkey.
No missiles were used in the Cuban missile crisis. No one fired a one. It was caused by the fact that the Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba aimed toward the United States that caused the crisis.