Kennedy Missile Crisis

  • bobby Kennedy met secretly with a Soviet leader to seek settlement, but it failed

  • Moscow message was released and decided not to send missiles.

  • In exchange for the removal of missiles in Cuba, he promised to remove missiles in Turkey and not attack Cuba.

  • In dallas, JFK got SHOT!!!!! Oswald had connections with soviets? Oswald was gunned down

  • The Berlin Wall was constructed which was like a failure of communism, no blood was shed at the Russian revolution. This was truly progress.

  • End of the Kennedy era was challenged by those within their own society. The US struggled with racial rights/civil rights and the Vietnam war divided the US society. The Soviet Union struggled to restore its influence.