How Did Khrushchev React To The Cuban Missile Crisis

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The arguments on how to react to the Cuban Missile Crisis shifted when Khrushchev sent a letter to President Kennedy offering to remove there missiles if the U.S. promised not to invade Cuba. Then, Khrushchev offer to remove the Cuban Missiles if the U.S. removed the missiles that had at the Turkish-Soviet border. One of the United States plans before getting the letter to bomb Cuba and invade them but, later use there Navy to quarantine Cuba.
The reason the arguments on how to react to the Cuban Missile Crisis shifted was after the letter from Khrushchev. The reason the letter shifted Kennedy’s decision on what to do was that Khrushchev offered a trade were both nations removed there missiles, and this was the best way to stop the Cold War

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