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 …showed first 75 words of 1407 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1407 total…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.