Krushchev the Russian leader at the time put long-range missiles in Cuba, which sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Castro and JFK
Fidel Castro. its also called Fidels' missile crisis. Fidel Castro
Cuba simply obeyed Russia, and Russia take the missiles out.
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The premier of the USSR and leader of the Communist party was Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), who was in power from 1953 to 1964.
The Cuban missile crisis occurred almost four years after Fidel Castro's takeover of the country.
Cuba never attacked the US. Castro's been (or was) the leader of Cuba since 1959. If your question is referring to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, that wasn't a war. It was a "crisis"...meaning, it was ALMOST a war (a nuclear war). The Soviets removed the atomic missiles from Cuba and we departed.
Nikita Kruschev was the Soviet leader who had missile sites built in Cuba.
No.
In October of 1962.
No. That was what led to the crisis. The crisis was that Russia was putting some nuclear missiles in Cuba as a deterrent to the bombings.