Nothing. Nothing at all.

Just look at the modern equivalent: the USA's "missile shield" in Europe.

President Kennedy forced the Soviets to remove all of its missiles from Cuba and promised not to invade Cuba. The so-called deal for the US to remove its missiles from Turkey is problematic.The bottom line was that neither superpowers wanted a thermonuclear war.

We moved to Defcon 2 because relations with Fidel Castro were becoming complicated. After the failure of The Bay of Pigs Invasion Castro became Afraid of the U.S invading the island of Cuba. He considered launching all nuclear war heads that would be defined as MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).

It was from 15 to 19 April 1961.

In 1963, when Kennedy was President of the US, trying to end the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union reached an arms control agreement. They also established a direct telephone line between the White House and the Kremlin.

The Cuban Missile Crisis helped to escalate and de-escalate tensions with the Soviet Union. It escalated the tensions because the Soviet Union repeatedly told the US that they would not place missiles in Cuba and that there was no reason for concern and then they went ahead and did it anyway. This caused tensions to escalate because the US and other countries could no longer trust the Soviet Union. Tensions de-escalated because the US was able to gain the support of so many other countries. This showed the Soviet Union that they had no support and that their testing the US and placing missiles in different places would not be tolerated at all. So, they removed their missiles from Cuba and the tensions partially de-escalated.

Careful, you can't call it a "blockade" that would be an act of war and would have justified the USSR issuing a declaration of war on the US. Kennedy only called it a "quarantine". (even if effect was same)

Soviet Premier Khrushchev wanted to put nuclear weapons in Cuba, because the US had placed Nuclear weapons in West Germany, Greece, Turkey, Japan, and A few pacific islands.

He wanted to equalize the strategic advantage

"Won" is not the usual idea of a crsis end. All of mankind "won" because we are still alive. The fact we got into such a crisis means we all lost something also. The idea that Cuba and Russia could have got nuclear missles that close to us and setup means we could have easily had a major loss of life.

The end result is that President Kennedy got Russia and Castro to flicnh and move the missles out of Cuba.

If you are asking about the missiles in Cuba they were discovered by the use of spy planes and people on the ground. A spy plane flew over and shot pictures of the silos for the missiles. The people on the ground confirmed that they were there. Kennedy told Russia that they had to remove the missiles and the result was the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Bay of Pigs was when the US tried to invade Cuba under the rule of Fidel Castro in 1961. This invasion failed and the USSR based nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. This led to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Six soviet missile and jet bomber base.

President Kennedy admitted to lack of missile gap unlike Eisenhower. He said that the US was way ahead of the Soviets in the developing missiles. This made Khrushchev (The Soviet leader) look bad. And this angers Cuba a lot especially, after our failed attempt with the Bay of Pigs. Castro starts to buddy up with the Soviets a lot more. Khrushchev doesn't want to see the US take Cuba down. So he offers to arm Castro with weapons. The US had the Soviet Union surrounded with missile sites and the Soviets wanted at least one site near the US. If they could get Cuba they would have their "one place". A U2 planes discovered installation sites being built in Cuba by the soviets. Kennedy called together the National Security Council, DOD, etc. to discuss what to do with this. We came up with three options. 1)Invade Cuba-Bay of pigs was a failure. 2) Air Strike- were afraid if we did do that ,t hey would shoot our planes3) Leave it alone. No one was really satisfied with those three option so we decided to Quarantine AKA Blockade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis scared everyone to death; we were on the verge of nuclear war. In 1963 the US and the Soviet Union Signed a nuclear Test Ban Treaty which banned the testing of atomic weapons. A hotline was also set up between Moscow and Washington D.C.

Well, if i knew that some dangerous people were constructing missiles, i would want to stop it, so he was probably scared and wanted to keep the country safe without causing too much of a problem.

Khrushchev withdrew the missiles from Cuba to prevent World War III and because the US government assured him that they would remove their nuclear arsenal from Turkey. However, the latter part of this agreement was not publicized until much later.

I became super great at everything :) the beginning.

The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion attempt at Cuban exiles. The mission was run by the Kennedy administration.

The United States and the Soviet Union

1. The failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs
2. The missile crisis of Russian made missiles installed in Cuba.

There were many ships in the blockade. The two most important were the USS Newport News and the USS Leary.

This was during the Cold War era when it was believed that the Soviet Union was trying to take over the world, bit by bit, and Cuba, as a communist country, was an ally of the Soviet Union, and hence necessarily an enemy of the US, which did not wish to be taken over by communism. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a counter-revolution, designed to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro. At that time (the 1960's) the US supported all forms of anti-communism. That's how the Cold War was fought.