JFK - Primary Resources: Letter from Khrushchev to Kennedy, 10/24/62

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Cold War Soviet Union Cuban Missile Crisis nuclear war world peace U.S.S.R. USSR Havana bombing Castro Communism John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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JFK - Primary Resources: Letter from Khrushchev to Kennedy, 10/24/62

In this letter, the outraged Soviet leader rejects the American "ultimatum" and asserts that Soviet vessels will not honor the quarantine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Read the letter, from American Experience: "JFK."
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