Cuban Missile Crisis Leadership
Cuban Missile Crisis Paper
The United States & The Soviet Union: Leadership perspective during the Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile crisis between the United States, The Soviet Union, and Cuba was one of the most politically tense and hectic periods of time in American and world history. Throughout the decades, many historians have addressed and studied many facts regarding what the Cuban Missile Crisis would have symbolized for the world, had there been any nuclear attacks from either side. Unfortunately, our society and several foreign others do not fully comprehend the extent and the danger that the world faced during October of 1962, …show more content…
The film does a good job at incorporating sources from Russian records, giving the world an understanding of Khrushchev’s standings and policies on the Cold War against the US. One hell of a gamble covers Soviet-U.S. relations through the late Eisenhower and Kennedy presidential terms, which pays close attention to the Bay of Pigs and the Kennedys ' obsession with Cuba afterward. Since the greatest revelations from the book come from Soviet sources, it tilts in that direction and shows the audience how the Soviets lived through the 13 days of immense tension that could have meant a severe nuclear …show more content…
The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: WW Norton, 1997 Fernandez, S. J. (2011). Cuban Missile Crisis and Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective after 40 Years. Journal Of American History, 98(2), 613-615.
Historian Ernest May on "Thirteen Days": Ernest May, “Thirteen Days in 145 minutes”
James N. Giglio. Review of Fursenko, Aleksandr; Naftali, Timothy, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. March, 1998. The Kennedy tapes: inside the White House during the Cuban missile crisis By Ernest R. May, Philip Zelikow
The United States & The Soviet Union: Leadership perspective during the Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile crisis between the United States, The Soviet Union, and Cuba was one of the most politically tense and hectic periods of time in American and world history. Throughout the decades, many historians have addressed and studied many facts regarding what the Cuban Missile Crisis would have symbolized for the world, had there been any nuclear attacks from either side. Unfortunately, our society and several foreign others do not fully comprehend the extent and the danger that the world faced during October of 1962, …show more content…
The film does a good job at incorporating sources from Russian records, giving the world an understanding of Khrushchev’s standings and policies on the Cold War against the US. One hell of a gamble covers Soviet-U.S. relations through the late Eisenhower and Kennedy presidential terms, which pays close attention to the Bay of Pigs and the Kennedys ' obsession with Cuba afterward. Since the greatest revelations from the book come from Soviet sources, it tilts in that direction and shows the audience how the Soviets lived through the 13 days of immense tension that could have meant a severe nuclear …show more content…
The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: WW Norton, 1997 Fernandez, S. J. (2011). Cuban Missile Crisis and Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective after 40 Years. Journal Of American History, 98(2), 613-615.
Historian Ernest May on "Thirteen Days": Ernest May, “Thirteen Days in 145 minutes”
James N. Giglio. Review of Fursenko, Aleksandr; Naftali, Timothy, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. March, 1998. The Kennedy tapes: inside the White House during the Cuban missile crisis By Ernest R. May, Philip Zelikow