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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a period of political tension between the USSR and the United States, which took place between October 16 and 28, 1962 in Cuba, during the Cold War. It was caused by the secret deployment by the USSR in Cuba of medium-range ballistic missiles that directly threatened US territory. It was the greatest crisis in postwar world history and seriously threatened nuclear war between the two nations. The conflict was resolved when, on October 28, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the return of the ships and agreed to dismantle the missile launchers in exchange for guarantees of non-aggression from the United States to Cuba, as well as the withdrawal of the American missiles from Turkey.
