Question

Several reference to munich are made in the movie, what event are they referring to (you have to figure this out own your own)

Answer 1

I think the movie was “Thirteen Days”. The officials in the movie were referring to the Munich Agreement where the Allies tried to appease Germany in the hopes of preventing the war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved through negotiations by both countries.

Answer 2

In the movie "Thirteen Days," several references are made to Munich. Transcripts of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExCom) show that the Munich analogy was used constantly by the government in their discussions regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The analogy refers to the Munich Agreement of 1938, widely known as a failure in appeasement. This event had a particular meaning for Kennedy, as his father, Joseph Kennedy, had been Roosevelt's ambassador to Britain at the time of the conference.