In October 1962 American spy planes discovered new play missiles on the island of Cuba put there by the Soviet union. President Kennedy's answer to this Cuban missile crisis was to quarantine the island until he and Kremlin, the Soviet Union dictator at the time, made a "hotline ". Kremlin agreed to take a nuclear missiles out of Cuba if United States took their nuclear missiles out of turkey. so in the end so you get union ships turned around and President Kennedy took down the naval blockade around Cuba