Evaluation:
Published: 10.06.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Cuban Missile Crisis', 1.
  • Essays 'Cuban Missile Crisis', 2.
Extract

"Now, as to Cuba - there's a place that could really lead to some unexpected consequences." (Nikita Khrushchev). Through this statement Khrushchev is expressing his anger towards the United States and that the United States is putting him in the position to use nuclear arms. The Cuban missile crisis can be considered one of the most controversial events in the greater part of the 20th century. It can be blamed on both the United States and the Soviet Union but when in retrospect the United States had really brought it on by their actions in the Cold War.
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