Guided Analysis Document 26.1 Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

GUIDED ANALYSIS

Edmund Valtman | The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

For thirteen days in October 1962, the world held its breath while U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traded threats over the presence of nuclear weapons in Cuba. Khrushchev eventually backed down and removed the missiles. Two days after the crisis ended, the following cartoon by Edmund Valtman appeared in the Hartford Times.

Document 26.1

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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, drawing by Edmund S. Valtman, LC-USZ62-130423