Cuban Missile Crisis
- A young Fidel Castro
- Moving toward communism
- The Bay of Pigs fiasco
- Communism on the march
- Revelations of October 14, 1962
- President Kennedy addresses the American people
- To the brink of nuclear war
- For More Information
- Words to Know
- People to Know
- Kennedy's Favorite Spy Photograph
- The Inside Word
In November 1960, U.S. senator John F. Kennedy (1917– 1963) of Massachusetts...
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- Origins of the Cold War
- Conflict Builds
- Germany and Berlin
- Dawning of the Nuclear Age
- Homeland Insecurities
- Espionage in the Cold War
- A Worldwide Cold War
- Renewed Tensions
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Mutual Assured Destruction
- An Unsettled World
- Home Front Turmoil: The 1960s
- Détente: A Lessening of Tensions
- A Freeze in Relations
- End of the Cold War
