The Cuban Missile Crisis has been known in history as the closest that the USSR and the United States have ever come to the brink of nuclear war. With escalation of war rising on both sides and, the threat of first strike upon one another, government officials tried to understand the conflict, and to find a peaceful resolution to this problem being faced. With a peaceful resolution in sight both countries gained, and lost certain …showed first 75 words of 1423 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1423 total…government, and many countries now distrusted the USSR because they lied to the international community. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a very important time in cold war history, because it was the closest that tensions between the United States and the USSR. But, with careful diplomatic maneuvers and relations both countries were able to work out the situation at the expense of loosing and gaining; public support, and status in the system of international relations.