Cuban Missile Crisis 1:) President Kennedy’s reaction to the photographs would be much like anyone else in the USA: shocking. He wakes up from a nights sleep to find that Cuba had made bases containing missiles and atomic weapons right under his nose. The missile once launched could easily destroy cities and towns across America; the furthest reaching parts of Canada. Once more the increase in Soviet cargo ships heading to Cuba made the Soviets …showed first 75 words of 1188 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1188 total…USSR is bound to be at least slightly biased, ‘Finally Kennedy gave in’. It is much like in source I where the historian wrote, ‘ John F Kennedy had won’. Khrushchev also printed his book in the west, so he might have tried to sway the western audiences’ opinion of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ ending. Khrushchev’s memory might have played tricks on him. He might not have been that strong in the letter to Kennedy.