American President John F. 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.

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

Sixty-two years ago today the country was caught up in the Cuban Missile Crisis when we almost ... more than a year later ...

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 ...

Though these ideas were approved by military leaders, the operation was ultimately rejected by President Kennedy, who ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded ... and U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes ...

But the 'Who shot JFK?' question fits the Trump narrative about a "deep state" hiding secrets from the American population.

President John F. Kennedy Attends a ... as 1962 to remove all troops in stages. Kennedy did have one triumph of foreign policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the closest the world has come ...

From the Cuban missile crisis to the election of Donald Trump, history has seen inflection points where alternative outcomes weren’t just possible, but actively planned for. So what can words that ...