The Cuban missile crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other in October 1962, during the Cold War.
More info on cuban missile crisis
This site will show you a timeline of the Cuban Missile Crisis
http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/timeline.html
This is a video of President Kennedy addressing the Cuban Missile Crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50RNAbmy3M