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The Cuban Missile Crisis: the road to resolution

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The Assassination of John F Kennedy on November 63

In 63 there was still covert pressure from the United States, clandestine covert pressure on Cuba. So yeah, but I think the bigger thing, the greater motif in Kennedy's foreign policy is a greater interest in accommodation with communist nations during the Cold War. The day after that American University speech on the 11th of June, he gives what for me is the greatest speech of his life,. which is a television address on civil rights. For the first time in the 20th century, a president defines equality, racial equality, civil rights as a moral issue for America. He introduces the civil rights bill to end racial segregation in the South that will pass a year after after his death in 1964. And

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