Around 1960, the U.S was planning to put a naval blockade in Cuba and they wanted to remove all of the nuclear warfare from the area and prevent further creation of these missiles. But a secret meeting between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev led to an idea of placing multiple missile launch bases along the coast of Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S controlled Florida. When U.S air force planes had spotted these missile bases. While President Kennedy was working on negotiations with Khrushchev, the U.S set up a naval blockade around Cuba, forbidding any more nuclear weapons to be delivered there and forcing Cuba to send the missiles to the U.S.S.R. This Scare is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Compromise between Kennedy and the U.S with Khrushchev and Cuban was that Cuba would remove all their weapons, and the U.S would never invade cuba without reason and warning. The Cuban Missile Crisis is most significant to the Cold war, and was the highest point of tension between the U.S and Soviet Union. It was the closest point of the Cold war that both sides could have turned it into a full-scale nuclear battle.
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Vietnam War was a conflict between North and South Vietnam but it was a global war. The North was led by communist and nationalist regime that fought against the Japanese during World War II. The South was led by a non-communist regime and was helped by the United States. When President Kennedy was assassinated Lyndon Johnson inherited the problem of the Vietnam War. Like the three presidents before him, He was determined to prevent North Vietnamese Communists from taking over the government of South Vietnam. Johnson believed United States security relied on containing on spreading communism. Johnson felt it was a necessity to increase troops as when he started in 1963 only 16,000 troops were stationed in Vietnam and then in 1968 the troop count went to 500,000. He did not want to be the first president to lose a