For my history essya, I decided on determining if the Cuban Missile Crisis can be attributed to the foreign policy of the Kennedy Administration. Can anyone help me with finding events/policies that could support or deny this? Any help is appreciated!
The two events that you can look at are the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 which drove Castro closer to the USSR and the deployment of Jupiter Missiles in Turkey in 1962 which upset the Soviets, and was part of the reason why they chose to deploy missiles close to the US. Both events took place during the Kennedy administration.