CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS
October 1962
Canadian and America battle ships were prepared to fire on the Soviet ships if they tried to run the blockade.
"The Cuban missile crisis marked the climax of an acutely antagonistic period in U.S.-Soviet relations. The crisis also marked the closest point that the world had ever come to global nuclear war. It is generally believed that the Soviets’ humiliation in Cuba played an important part in Khrushchev’s fall from power in October 1964 and in the Soviet Union’s determination to achieve, at the least, a nuclear parity with the United States."
https://www.britannica.com/event/Cuban-missile-crisis
Our appreciation to the Orlando Sentinel for the photo
"Russia threatens to attack western arms shipments"
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/ukraine-updates-russia-threatens-to-attack-western-arms-shipment
Thanks Jason. I too remember this when studying JFKs presidency. Here is the Soviet leader's response to our blockade.
We have to remember that America allowed many missiles to be situated in Cuba in violation of our Monroe Doctrine before we stopped the process.
This is exactly what is happening now. We wait. We try to negotiate. We lose. People die.
I don't remember this personally but studied the incident as well as the Bay of Pigs invasion which we botched and the deployment of Marines to invade Cuba hours after the assassination of JFK. We made a difference in the world then, apparently not now.