The Cuban missile crisis was one of the biggest events during the Cold War. The United States, Cuba and the USSR were on the edge of an all out nuclear war. After the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro came to power, the U.S. relations with Cuba became a real concern with John F. Kennedy. Castro became sure that America would invade Cuba after the landing on Bay of Pigs, in which a group of Cuban exiles trained by the U.S. CIA tried to take back Cuba from Castro. After the failed attack, Castro declared Cuba a socialist republic and established formal ties with the USSR. After the U.S. found that the USSR was supplying Cuba with nuclear missiles they sent U.S. naval ships to blockade any further Soviet ships from entering the island. Constantly Khrushchev and Castro call America an imperialist nation in their letters to one another and in many aspects they act like one during the Cuban missile crisis. America is still under the thought of the Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary during this event and put the foreign policies in to action. They took it into their hands to protect the Western hemisphere from a communist country with nuclear arms. Castro became very paranoid after the landing on Bay of Pigs and thought it would be best if the U.S. invaded Cuba that the USSR launch the first nuclear missile onto American soil. America constantly sent U-2 spy planes over Cuba to keep tabs on what the country was doing, in which one was shot down during the dispute and help fuel the fire for Castro’s loathe for the U.S. He thought there was no hope in persuading the U.S. to see this problem on their side. In one of his first letters to Khrushchev he says “I have reached this conclusion after seeing the way that this aggressive policy is developing and the way in which the imperialists, despite world opinion, have placed themselves above principles and law, they way they blockade the seas, violate airspace and prepare for invasion, while frustrating any...