Question

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. President ____ and Soviet leader ____ almost took the world into a nuclear war. A) Carter, Brezhnev Eliminate B) Reagan, Gorbachev C) Johnson, Khrushchev D) Kennedy, Khrushchev

Answer 1

The correct answer is ( D ) Kennedy, Kruschev. The crisis started in 1962, when an american spy plane took pictures of Soviet long range missiles deployed in Cuba. According to the experts these missiles coul reach almost any point in the States.