Cuban Missle Crisis

The Velvet Fist
<Tab/>President John Fitzgerald Kennedy woke up Tuesday October 16th with many things on his mind. There was the expansion of communism into Vietnam and the Soviet Union threatening to take over West Berlin among the many issues of the day. But in the shadows of the small tropical island of Cuba, the Soviet Union was writing the story that may have brought an end to civilization as we knew it. Had it not been for the velvet fist of the American President, we may be living in a different world today or we may not be living at all. A person's true character cann…