Person1917 – 1963
John F. Kennedy
35th US president (1961–1963) who resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis and launched the Apollo programme; assassinated in Dallas in 1963
Where they went
2 related events
- 1
Overnight, East Germany strung barbed wire and then built a wall between East and West Berlin. The Berlin Wall became the symbol of the Cold War and of division.
- 2
When the US discovered Soviet nuclear missile sites under construction in Cuba it imposed a naval blockade. For thirteen days the world stood on the brink of nuclear war until the Soviets withdrew the missiles.
People who appear alongside
- Nikita Khrushchev1894 – 1971
First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953–1964) who denounced Stalin and preached peaceful coexistence, yet confronted the US over the Berlin Wall and Cuba
- Fidel Castro1926 – 2016
Leader of the 1959 Cuban Revolution who made Cuba a socialist state and ruled it until 2008
Themes this person appears in
- The Cold War1945 – 1991
From Yalta to the dissolution of the Soviet Union — half a century in which two blocs led by the US and the USSR divided the world