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 negotiation would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and would be one ... They fired against our low-altitude surveillance. John F. Kennedy (archival audio): A U-2 was shot down?

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 ...

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 ...

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.