Author Question: All of the following are lessons for American policy makers that emerged from the Cuban Missile ... (Read 75 times)

mrsjacobs44 · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

All of the following are lessons for American policy makers that emerged from the Cuban Missile Crisis except

a. the risk of nuclear annihilation.
b. the possibility of rational policy making.
c. the likelihood of mutual accommodation.
d. rolling back communism was a tangible goal.
e. organizational and bureaucratic factors in policy making during the crisis produced more nuclear risks.

Question 2

The singular event of the 1960s that brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war was

a. the Sino-Soviet split.
b. the Vietnam War.
c. the Cuban Missile Crisis.
d. the Berlin Crisis.
e. the growth of the nonaligned movement.