Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition (Bentley)

Chapter 38: THE BIPOLAR WORLD

Internet Activities: Cuban Missle Crisis

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960khrushchev-cuba1.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961-kennedy-cuba1.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962kennedy-cuba.html

1
Read these speeches from President Kennedy and Premier Kruschchev. What were the substantive issues that incited the conflict over Cuba? How had the rhetoric of these leaders changed in comparison to that of their predecessors from the immediate postwar era? Based on these documents and your textbook, how had the Cold War changed, if at all, from 1945 to 1962?
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