Finally, Kennedy stated that any weapon fired from Cuba at any Western Hemisphere nation would be taken as an act of war against the United States, and in return, the United States would respond with full military forces against the Soviet Union (Thompson 270). ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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