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There are a number of different perspectives on the days described as the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. This 5 page paper provides an overview of this issue and relates it to the current literature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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views on communications between the United States and the Soviet Union and the roles of men like President Kennedy, Premier Khrushchev, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Robert Kennedy. By
assessing some of the central conflicting views of historical events during this period, it is possible to gain some insight into the actual events that occurred. The Cuban Missile
Crisis itself was perceived by many as a extremely serious point in American history. In fact, some have questioned what gave President Kennedy the right to take actions that
could have resulted in the use of mass nuclear weapons against the United States. What must be understood, though, is that there were particular actions and choices that were
made that had an inherent impact on the decisions by the United States and the USSR, and these were fueled by questions of communications and the perceptions regarding the seriousness
of the Soviet threat. Initially, the Soviet presence in Cuba and the perceived threat did not define an immediate concern regarding the use of nuclear weaponry. In fact, some
historians have argued that the US was aware of the Soviet support in Castro well before the onset of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that choices were made in response
American military presence in the region. As a result, the crisis itself may have been less of a crisis at the onset, and it was the responses and the
changing views of the American leadership that in fact created the crisis and the response to the crisis that were so dramatic. One of the interesting points in occurred in
the interaction between President Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrie Gromyko, when they met on October 18, 1962. At this time, President Kennedy was aware of the Soviet presence
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