The Cuban Missile Crisis

Part of the Historical Text Archive at Mississippi State, the site serves as a starting point for the visitor who wishes to learn more about the crisis prompted by the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba in October 1962. There are links to personal memories of those who participated, a bibliography, telegrams between Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy, an essay, Kennedy's address to the nation, and the British response to the crisis. There is also a section on the continuing lessons of the crisis.

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Don Mabry, Mississippi State University

Political Science, U.S. History

Social Studies

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