The Assassination of JFK: Explained
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
In 19 60, fidel castro had taken power in cuba and led his country on a kind of leftist revolution. In 19 62, the soviet union installed nuclear missiles in cuba to keep the us from invading and overthrowing this government. Kennedy feared that if he invaded cuba, the result might be a cear war. So kennedy proceeded very carefully,. He doesn't want to destroy them militarily. He wants to withdraw them. And after two weeks of two terrifying weeks in which nuclear war seemed very close, it was averted. But not before JFK's policies gave him serious enemies within the us National security community.
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