The Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedys Address to the Nation “Explain what the status of the cold war was in the early 1960. Was Kennedys approach to the cold war different from those before him. How and Why? Why was there confrontation between he Castro government in Cuba and the us. What was he doing the let to that? explain bay of pigs or Operation Mongoose. Explain why Cuba requested the Soviets place nuclear weapons in their country aimed a the U.S. and explain why the soviets agree and what they were hoping to accomplish such as the removal of US missiles in Turkey. Finally describe the agreement the US and Soviet Union came to the eventfully ended the crisis.