John F. Kennedy

Where they went

2 related events

1. 1
   1961Construction of the Berlin Wallrelated figure

   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. 2
   1962Cuban Missile Crisisleader

   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