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America was commited to the policy of Containment as set out in the 1947 Truman Doctrine. In 1959, Cuba went Communist.
America responded to the Cuban Revolution by cutting all trade links with the island. In response, the Cubans went to the USSR to find a market for their sugar.
Hoping to close the Missile gap, the Soviets begin to build nuclear missile launch sites on Cuba..
Missiles launched from Cuba. would by-pass the American early warning system in the arctic and strike all major American cities within minutes .
Kennedy responds to the threat of missiles with a naval blockade to stop them being delivered. There is a huge risk of escalation to nuclear war.
The crisis is solved by fax with the Americans pretending that they will swap Russian missiles in Cuba for their own being removed from Turkey.
