Significant Events in U.S. Foreign Relations (1900 - 2001)

Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis

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In a televised address on October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced the naval blockade of the Cuban coast and proclaimed that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union and would be responded to accordingly. The Cuban Missile Crisis is regarded as the one moment when the Cold War came closest to escalating into a nuclear war.
(Clip courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library)

 


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