The Cuban Missile Crisis and John F. Kennedy

The Cuban Missile Crisis and John F. Kennedy When given the opportunity to write a term paper on any topic in American history from 1890 to 1980 one has innumerable options: World War One and Two, the War in Vietnam, the Korean conflict, and the great depression to name but a few. However, I have chosen a brief period of two weeks during which the very existence of the United States was seriously threatened. To most of …

…war but also resolved the situation without a single injury or death. Bibliography Bohlen, Charles E., Witness to History, 1929-1969. New York: Norton, 1973. Collier, Peter and Horowitz, David The Kennedys: An American Dream. New York: Summit Books (Simon & Schuster), 1984. Detzer, David The Brink: Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Crowell, 1979 LaFeber, Walter The American Century. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1988. May, Ernest R. and Zelikow, Philip D. eds. The Kennedy Tapes. Cambridge MA:Harvard University Press, 1997.