President Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Description: Examines the controversy that surrounds Kennedy's handling of the international crisis.
The National Archives | Heroes & Villains | Kennedy & Cuba > Kennedy & Cuba John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the USA between 1961-63 and one of the most popular presidents ever. No event tested Kennedy more fully than the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 and his management of this crisis remains highly controversial.
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| Page title: | The National Archives | Heroes & Villains | Kennedy & Cuba |
| Keywords: | history, transcript, source, evidence, document, photo, photograph, map, audio, USA, America, American, president, Kennedy, JFK, Cuba, crisis, Soviet, USSR, Russia, Khrushchev, missile, missiles, nuclear, weapon, weapons, war, cold, Castro, bay of pigs, invasion, Macmillan, blockade, UN, United Nations, Kremlin, speech, broadcast, assassination, assassinated, killed, death, Dallas, Texas, motorcade |
| Description: | John Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis. This gallery contains four case studies and an activity for key stage 3-5 pupils (age 11-18) |
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