Cuban Missile Crisis: The Essential Reference Guide

299 Pages·2012·3.405 MB·English

by  Priscilla Roberts

Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Essential
Reference Guide

Priscilla Roberts, Editor
Copyright 2012 by ABC-CLIO, LLC
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Roberts, Priscilla Mary.
Cuban Missile Crisis : the essential reference guide / Priscilla Roberts.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61069-065-2 (hardcopy : acid-free paper) ·
ISBN 978-1-61069-066-9 (ebook) 1. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 2. Cuban
Missile Crisis, 1962·Sources. 3. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962·Chronology.
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Contents

List of Entries, ix
Introduction, xi
Entries, 1
Primary Documents, 193
1. President John F. Kennedy, Report to the American People
on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba, October 22, 1962, 193
2. Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges during the
Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22–28, 1962, 199
3. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 27, 1962, 223
4. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 28, 1962, 228
5. Chairman Nikita Khrushchev to President
John F. Kennedy, Moscow, October 28, 1962, 230
6. Meeting between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, October 30, 1962, 232
7. Letters between Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev, October 26–31, 1962, 236
Chronology, 249
Bibliography, 255
About the Editor and Contributors, 269
Index, 271
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List of Entries

Acheson, Dean Gooderham Dulles, Allen Welsh
Alekseev (Shitov), Aleksandr Dulles, John Foster
Ivanovich
Alliance for Progress Eisenhower, Dwight David
anadyr, Operation
Arkhipov, Vasili Alexandrovich Feklisov (Fomin), Aleksandr
Ball, George Wildman Gilpatric, Roswell Leavitt
Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio Gribkov, Anatoli Ivanovich
Bay of Pigs Invasion Gromyko, Andrey Andreyevich
Berlin Crises Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
Bissell, Richard Mervin, Jr. Guevara de la Serna,
Bohlen, Charles Eustis Ernesto „Che‰
Bolshakov, Georgi Nikitovich
Bundy, McGeorge Harriman, William Averell
Castro, Fidel Johnson, Lyndon Baines
Castro, Raúl Joint Chiefs of Staff
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Jupiter Missiles (Turkey and
China, PeopleÊs Republic of (PRC) Italy)
Containment, Doctrine and
Course of Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Cordier, Andrew Wellington Kennedy, Robert Francis
Cuba Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Kohler, Foy David
Dillon, C(larence) Douglas Kozlov, Frol Romanovich
Dobrynin, Anatoly Fyodorovich Kuznetsov, Vasili Vasilyevich
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