The Cuban Missile Crisis was a moment in US history where missiles were being stockpiled in Cuba due to former US attempts to dethrone Castro and his further communist ties. Kennedy and Khrushchev would send letters to each other while the US enacted quarantine policies to oversee shipping going into Cuba to halt any shipment of missiles, which would result in rising tensions until the US agreed to remove missiles from Turkey if the USSR removed the missiles from Cuba. This resulted in both nations seeing the importance of diplomacy, which resulted in a hotline being installed between both offices of the US and USSR.

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