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The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.he crisis was over but the naval quarantine continued until the Soviets agreed to remove their ILâ28 bombers from Cuba and, on November 20, 1962, the United States ended its quarantine. U.S. Jupiter missiles were removed from Turkey in April 1963.
The crisis started when an American U2 spy plane was shot down over Cuba. From that, the US discovered that the Soviet Union was building nuclear missile launch pads in Cuba. Kennedy implemented a Naval blockade on Cuba to prevent any ships from getting to the island that may hold weapons from the Soviets.t was in this Quarantine zone that the Essex Carrier Group was patrolling to prevent ships carrying Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba and also to prevent Soviet Submarines from passing by either. Also, it was the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was not a war.