Thursday, 30 April 2015

QUESTION: Why did Nikita Khrushchev make the decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962?

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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US Department of State Office of the Historian, The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/cuban-missile-crisis.

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GCSE History, Why did Khrushchev put missiles into Cuba. http://www.gcsehistory.org.uk/modernworld/coldwar/whyputmissilesoncuba.htm. (Accessed 1/05/2015).


The Cold War Museum, Cuban Missile Crisis. http://www.coldwar.org/articles/60s/cuban_missile_crisis.asp. (Accessed 1/05/2015).