The Cuban Missile Crisis began in 1962 when an American U-2 spy plane photographed the soviets building missile launch sites in Cuba. The president of this time, John F Kennedy, did not yet want the Soviets and Cubans to know he'd discovered them, meeting in secret with his advisors for many days to find a solution. Finally, Kennedy came to the decision of setting up a naval blockade around Cuba to stop further shipment of military supplies in the country. He refused to remove the blockade until the current missiles were shipped out and the sites were destroyed. Both leaders, fearing the possibility of a nuclear war, came to an agreement. The soviets would do as they had been told in exchange for the United States not invading Cuba. Though unknown to the public for nearly twenty-five years, another condition of the agreement was the the United States must remove all of the missiles from turkey.