Index: Kennedy's Address about the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1963
Read the article at the following URL. Test your knowledge by answering the questions below.
John F. Kennedy’s national address about the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22, 1963
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962kennedy-cuba.html
1. What does Kennedy say about the nature and range of the weapons in place in Cuba and those soon to be in place?
2. How does he represent the history of the deployment of nuclear arms by the United States and the Soviet Union?
3. What are the seven steps he indicates he is taking?
4. Which of the seven steps were the most likely to involve the United States in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union?