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Session 14 - The Cuban Missile Crisis

Session 14 - The Cuban Missile Crisis

Q The Bay of Pigs incident was a disaster for the Kennedy administration. The following year in 1962, came the Cuban missile Crisis. After reviewing what the textbook say about this event, read the first several paragraphs in this article (and scan the rest of the article): The Real Cuban Missile Crisis What new insights did you gain?

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The first few paragraphs of the article is enough to understand that the hole Cuban Missile Crisis and the win of Kennedy’s administration is nothing but a huge politically staged performance by Kennedy to gain political advantage against the other candidates. Kennedy’s administration glorified Kennedy for successfully avoiding a huge nuclear threat posed by the Soviet Union by installing ballistic missiles in Cuba.