Cuban Missile Crisis

The president of the United States from 1961 - 1963

The communist leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis who wanted to start a nuclear war with the U.S.

The leader of the communist Russia (also known as the USSR or Soviet Union)

The communist nation now known as Russia or the USSR who was the U.S.'s rival during the Cold War

An island in the Caribbean Sea that was an ally of the USSR during the Cold War

A period in 1962 in which the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to annoy and scare the United States.