The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the most critical events in American history; the crisis could have led the U.S. into a nuclear war with the Soviets, killing millions of people and would have had huge destruction on both countries. But with President Kennedy's decision to take the safest actions as possible, he saved the U.S. from a nuclear war. President Kennedy was considered one of America's heroes.
On October 14, 1962, the U.S. sent two U-2 surveillance spy planes over Cuba. After taking numerous pictures of the area, the U.S. found out that the Soviet Union was installing nuclear…