Cuban Missile Crisis by BarkerC

The crisis lasted this number of days, which would later serve as the title of a posthumously released account of the crisis by one of the principal actors.

First and last name required: JFK sought to keep initial discussion of the growing crisis small, creating the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, or ExComm, which was chaired by what Cabinet member?

ExComm agreed upon an effort to prevent any further missiles from reaching Cuba, but because a blockade is, under international law, an act of war, the U.S. instead gave their build up of ships around the island of Cuba this more "medical" name.

In order to have international justification for the action in Question 3, the United States sought to invoke the provisions of the Rio Treaty and thus needed an affirmative vote from this Washington, DC based group, founded in 1948.

Just prior to displaying the U-2 photography showing the Soviet missiles in Cuba, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson vigorously demanded of this Soviet Ambassador "Do you, Ambassador [BLANK], deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba? Don't wait for the translation! Yes or no?"

Though recent scholarship discounts the actual occurrence of the incident that lead to it, at the "peak" of the crisis, what Kennedy administration official said, by his own account said "We were eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked."

Part of the deescalation of the crisis came with the KGB Resident at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, Aleksandr Fomin, requested a meeting with this ABC News reporter who would later go on to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

Not known to the American people until 1982, part of the reason that the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles from Cuba was that JFK made a "private assurance" to Khrushchev that the U.S. Jupiter missiles in this NATO ally (as well as Italy) would be removed within six months.

One of the key advisors that convinced JFK that Khrushchev would accept a trade if he could demonstrate to the Politburo that he had made the U.S. back down came from this former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, who had, from time to time during his tenure in the USSR, lived with Khrushchev at his dacha.

During the middle of the Crisis, The People's Republic of China took the opportunity to invade this country across the McMahon Line and would earn a decisive victory by taking control of the Aksai Chin region.

In the 1974 made-for-TV docudrama The Missiles of October, this actor, who would later go on to play President James Heller on another TV series nearly four decades later, played President John F. Kennedy.

This 2003 Academy Award documentary, directed by Errol Morris, spends a significant amount of time in its opening act discussing Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's "lessons" learned from the Crisis.