Cuban Missile Crisis Essays

Thirteen Days” by Antony Gumi The “Thirteen Days” movie describes how the 35th president of United States of America (USA), John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis during the period of October 14-28, 1963. It shows how JFK’s leadership saved the world from having World War III (WWIII), or worse, Nuclear War. […]

Although many Americans hold a negative opinion about the United States’ counterintelligence efforts, particularly in regard to the CIA and FBI, it is not clear that the facts will support this opinion. Much of the criticism of the CIA and FBI stems from abuses where these agencies engaged in illegal activities against citizens of the […]

The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in the 1960’s not long after President John F. Kennedy’s failure in the Bay of Pigs. In October of 62’ photographs of Soviet missiles were taken from planes flying over Cuban soil. This put Americans on the edge of their seat, not prepared for another war. Kennedy already looking […]

While European Communist nations could generally not act on foreign policy Initiatives thou the explicit approval of the Soviet Union, this was not the case with Cuba. Its active interventionist policies in Latin America, and later Africa, were at the time thought by the United States and Its partners and allies as executed on the […]

Cuban Missile CrisisCritical to understanding the missile crisis of fall 1962 is the relationship and timing between US activities and Soviet/Cuban decisions to place on the island nuclear weapons that could strike areas of the United States. After the Bay of Pigs invasion, Moscow had began military shipments; after the Moscow-Havana agreement, which Che Guevara […]

Cuba is the least to blame for causing this crisis, though it still did have a part in causing the crisis due to some of its hostile actions. Firstly, it nationalized all American businesses in Cuba by taking over their businesses for the country instead to receive its profits. Also, it was responsible on behalf […]

October 1962, saw the world on the brink of a Nuclear War which was thankfully avoided. One of the consequences of this was that both sides wished to get that close again, and it left Kennedy and America as the winners in the eyes of most independent spectators. Hence, both powers played key roles prior […]

1. Sources A and B tell us a lot about Kennedy’s reaction to the U2 spy photos. In source A, President Kennedy asks his brother Robert, the author of the source, to come to the White House. This shows that the President needed moral support, indicating that he was worried about what the U2 photos […]

The start of détente in 1962 was triggered by the Cuban Missile Crisis. Here, U2 spy planes from the USA spotted nuclear missile sites and freight ships carrying nuclear missiles from the USSR to Cuba. These missiles would be in striking range to the majority of the USA. Russia pulled back just in time after […]

The movie Thirteen Days directed by Roger Donaldson is about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It is often referred to as a docudrama as it is very entertainment oriented but still remains close to the roots of what actually happened. Since it was produced at a later date than many other films portraying the […]

During John F. Kennedy’s presidency the United States was seriously concerned with stopping the spread of communism throughout the world and there where hot spots that sparked the Kennedy administrations attention. Containment was the United States foreign policy doctrine that proclaimed that the Soviet Union needed to be contained to prevent the spread of communism […]

This paper examines The Cuban Missile Crisis, which took place in October 1962, during the cold war, between United States and Soviet Union and analyses the critical points of the crises from the United States, Soviet Union and Cuba’s points of view. It points out their moves and negotiating styles in order to get in […]

Question One Negotiation skills are core when conducting any business, be it locally or across borders. Caution has to be taken when it comes to doing business across borders since different people have different cultures. The case is not different when with doing business with Taiwan. As an import manager who needs to import toys […]