Kennedy was not an appeaser. Putting up the quarantine around Cuba was a semi-aggressive action it was non-violent but still aggressive enough to keep Russia under control. Kennedy did take the missiles out of Turkey which is appeasement, this is appeasement because it was to keep Russia happy. Kennedy did threaten to sink any Russian ships that were carrying offensive weapons to Cuba, this shows that Kennedy was not trying to appease Russia because if he was then he would have let russia keep the missiles in
