Help me please im on my last straw lol i have an F i need to get this right. Historical Background For 13 days, the Soviet Union and the United States were on the brink of nuclear war. Their hostility was based on the placement of nuclear missile heads in Cuba. The conflict began shortly after the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion. Nervous about another American attack, Cuba turned to the Soviet Union. In July 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban leader Fidel Castro reached an arrangement in which ballistic missiles were placed in Cuba in order to prevent American aggression. Meanwhile, in the United States, the government was denying allegations that it had been paying no heed to the placement of nuclear missiles 90 miles away from Florida. To confirm that the Soviet Union and Cuba were indeed a threat, an American U-2 plane captured aerial photographs of various launch sites. As a response, the United States established a military blockade around Cuba. This tactic was used to stop the Soviet Union from bringing nuclear missiles into Cuba. In addition, the United States wanted the Soviet Union to disassemble the current weapons and send them back home. After several excruciating days of negotiating, Khrushchev and President John F. Kennedy came to a decision. The Soviets would remove their ballistic missile heads from Cuba in exchange for the United States promising to never invade Cuba. In addition, the United States would remove weapons they had placed in Italy and Turkey. The threat of nuclear war was subdued.

Using the document provided and your knowledge of Modern World History, why was the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union known as a cold war?