Please study Source C and Source D carefully before answering the multiple choice questions in the following page


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Source C
A comment by Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of State in 1962.

We believed that the Soviets had planted nuclear missiles in Cuba to counter America installation of warheads in Turkey. But the Soviet missiles were intended to neutralize the threat of a US invasion of the island, which Soviet Premier Krushchev and Cuba's Fidel Castro believed to be imminent. Despite the movement of large air and land forces to the south-western border of the US, an attack was never in the works and the President was unwilling to escalate the situation. Whatever the reasons that prompted the Russians to install the missille in Cuba, it was a rash and provocative act.

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Source D
A comment by Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs.

Everyone agreed that America would not leave Cuba alone unless we did something. We had an obligation to do everything in our power to protect Cuba's existence as a socialist country and as a working example to the other countries in Latin America. The Americans had surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons and now they would learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles ponting at them. We did nothing more than giving them a little taste of their own medicine.

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