Over the course of 13 days in October 1962, Kennedy avoided war with the Soviet Union through a willingness to proceed with caution -- and a gamble that Premier Nikita Khrushchev was just as ...

Kennedy did have one triumph of foreign policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 ... missiles were being installed in Cuba, despite Khrushchev’s personal assurances that there was no plan ...

The current peace talks among world leaders about Israel and Palestine on ceasefire and the compliance between both parties ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what ... left), Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (bottom left) and U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy also sent a letter to Khrushchev urging his government not to take action that would "widen or deepen this already grave crisis ... Missile site construction began that summer. US-backed ...

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced ... Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The outcome was uncertain.

The current situation around Ukraine is similar to the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis ... [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev and [US President John] Kennedy found the strength to show ...

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a standoff that became the closest we have ever come to a nuclear exchange. This followed after the United States stationed ...

He attempted the most daring penetration into this hemisphere, then back down in a global showdown before President Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis. In May of 1964, Khrushchev announced that ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after ... the Soviet Union and their leader, Nikita Khrushchev. It was an embarrassing failure for Kennedy and the CIA. Kennedy had won the presidential ...