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Rotten Tomatoes reports that 83% of 124 critics have given the film positive reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus states: "Thirteen Days offers a compelling look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, and its talented cast deftly portrays the real-life people who were involved."
The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. [1] [2] The title evokes the 1962 book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps amongst the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to World War I.
On September 4, 1961, partly in response, Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act, a Cold War Act that prohibited aid to Cuba and authorized the President to impose a complete trade-embargo against Cuba. On January 21, 1962, Cuba was suspended by the Organization of American States (OAS), by a vote of 14 in favor, one (Cuba) against with six ...
President John F. Kennedy widened the embargo in 1962 to include all Cuban trade, including food and medicine. Kennedy later imposed travel restrictions to Cuba after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. 1962 confrontation between the US and USSR "Missile Crisis" redirects here. For the missile crisis in Cyprus, see Cypriot S-300 crisis. "Cuban Missile" redirects here. For the baseball player, see Aroldis Chapman. Cuban Missile Crisis Part of the Cold War and the aftermath of the Cuban ...
United States embargo against Cuba (1958–) Republic of Cuba (1959–) Consolidation of the revolution (1959–1962) Cuban exodus (1959–) Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Grey years (1971-76) Institutionalization process (1976-1986) Intervention in Angola (1975–1991) Rectification process (1986-1992) Special Period ...
Mr. King errs when he says the embargo dates back to 1962. Actually, it was president Dwight D. Eisenhower who, on July 6, 1960, ordered that all purchases of Cuban sugar be suspended as a ...
The United States embargo against Cuba comes into effect, prohibiting all U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports. Luisenthal Mine Disaster: A coal mine explosion in Saarland, West Germany kills 299. February 10 – Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, in Berlin.