Question

What event put the U.S. on the brink of nuclear war in the early 1960s?

Answer 1

The Cuban Missile crisis in 1962

Explanation:

Cuba became the ally of the Soviet Union in 1959 after the fall of Battista and the rise to power of Castro. In 1962 the Cuban missile crisis pushed the world on the brink of nuclear war, fortunately a compromise was found between Khrutshchev and Kennedy and the latter accepted to remove missile bases in Turkey.