THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND THE US CONGRESS

Abstract

The article deals with one of the most significant events of the second half of the twentieth century - the Cuban missile crisis. During the crisis the humanity faced the threat of nuclear catastrophe. The U.S. policy for many years had been concentrated against Cuba, the U.S. Congress also took an active part in the Cuban issue. The author perfoms the study in a double perspective analyzing the Cuban missile crisis ,on the one hand, and the reaction of the U.S. Congress to the events in Cuba, on the other. The article focuses on the position and actions of the Congress in the period of exacerbation of the Cuban missile crisis, and the causes and consequences of the crisis.