The Cuban Missile Crisis (The Cold War) by Peter Chrisp (Hodder Wayland, 2001) An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek (Little, Brown, to be published in 2003) Kennedy by ...

HAVANA — The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in the Atlantic and warned of dire consequences if Soviet ...

President John F. Kennedy announced his intent to form a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent the Soviet Union from storing nuclear missiles there. The event became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

As any high-school history student can tell you, it was a question John F. Kennedy faced in dramatic fashion in the 13 days of the Cuban missile crisis.

Bell Ringer: President John F. Kennedy Oval Office Address: Cuban Missile Crisis (18:00) Draw parallels to today: Research current events and choose one to compare what is presently happening, to ...

In 1962, the world was on edge, worried that the Cuban missile crisis––a standoff between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union––could end in nuclear war. Take a look back at the infamous ...

U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis on this day in 1962.

In this portion of archival video of President John F. Kennedy's Oval Office Address on October 22, 1962, he described the actions the U.S. would take regarding the missile crisis in Cuba or… ...

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 ...

The world stood at the brink of Armageddon for 13 days in October 1962 when President John F. Kennedy drew a symbolic line in ... On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis (The Cold War) by Peter Chrisp (Hodder Wayland, 2001) An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek (Little, Brown, to be published in 2003) Kennedy by ...