Kennedy was under pressure to stand up to the communist Soviet Union. This would influence some of the decisions he took in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro ...

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...

During the Cuban missile crisis, World War III was likely averted by what one US official called ‘just plain dumb luck.’ ...

an event that became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The weapons could have destroyed the United States and so President John F Kennedy blockaded the country. Welshman Sir David Ormsby-Gore ...

The negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one of Kennedy's most lasting legacies. Narrator: The Soviets seemed intent on testing the quarantine line that ...

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F.

President Kennedy gravely announces details about the Soviet arsenal building up on the island of Cuba, citing unmistakable evidence gathered by US surveillance operations. Not all of Kennedy's ...

Khrushchev offers Kennedy a deal by letter – they will ... nuclear weapons alone in a state of readiness, the Cuban Missile Crisis could have led to the end of the world in mere minutes.

Kennedy to invoke the Monroe Doctrine and ... we have to make sure we've learned enough from the Cuban missile crisis.

Promising a new generation of leadership, John F. Kennedy stated he would guide the nation out of the so-called “conservative rut.” Challenges: The arms race with the Soviet Union continued and ...