Match the following Leaders in List I with the position they held during the Cuban Missile Crisis in List II:

(A)- II, (B)- III, (C)- I

(A) Fidel Castro - (II) President of Cuba: Fidel Castro was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

(B) John F. Kennedy - (III) President of America: John F. Kennedy was the President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As the leader of the United States, Kennedy was responsible for responding to the threat posed by the Soviet Union's placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba. His decisions during this crisis were crucial in avoiding a nuclear confrontation.

(C) Nikita Khrushchev - (I) Leader of the Soviet Union: Nikita Khrushchev was the Premier of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was responsible for the decision to deploy nuclear missiles to Cuba in response to perceived threats from the United States.

In April 1961, the leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were worried that the United States of America (USA) would invade communist-ruled Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, the president of the small island nation off the coast of the United States (CUBA). Cuba was an ally of the Soviet Union and received both diplomatic and financial aid from it. Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, decided to convert Cuba into a Russian base. In 1962, he placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. The installation of these weapons put the US, for the first time, under fire from close range and nearly doubled the number of bases or cities in the American mainland which could be threatened by the USSR. Three weeks after the Soviet Union had placed the nuclear weapons in Cuba, the Americans became aware of it. The US President, John F. Kennedy, and his advisers were reluctant to do anything that might lead to full-scale nuclear war between the two countries, but they were determined to get Khrushchev to remove the missiles and nuclear weapons from Cuba. Kennedy ordered American warships to intercept any Soviet ships heading to Cuba as a way of warning the USSR of his seriousness. A clash seemed imminent in what came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.