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Milestone #1
The Cold War- Cuban Missile Crisis
With military instillations being constructed at an unprecedented rate, in 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued a speech addressed to the Soviet Union, The American people, and the Nation of Cuba. This stand-off between us and the Soviet Union has always been an interesting topic for me and for that reason, I will happily choose it as my topic for my semester long research project. Within the project, I will go into length about the events that took place that led up to President Kennedy giving his speech on October 22nd, 1962 from the reports that the Soviet Union was deploying missiles in Cuba, the following warnings that were given to the Soviet Union, both officially and those communicated through private channels by the President’s brother and Attorney General, Robert Kennedy.[footnoteRef:1] Along with plenty of depth into the Soviet response through the letter from Chairman Khrushchev following the President’s TV address to the nations. I intent to dissect many of the Chairman’s statements including the proposal for the Soviet Union to remove the military and missile instillations from Cuba in exchange for the United States removing our position in Turkey[footnoteRef:2], as well as the eventual conclusion of these statements and any action that was taken or not. Finally, I will explore the conclusions of the Cuban Missile Crisis and address and “wins” or “losses” that were accrued by either the Soviet Union or the United States as President Kennedy did his best to extinguish what he would call in his address a “clear and present danger to the safety of the American people”.[footnoteRef:3] [1: ] [2: ] [3: ]
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