United States History Question of the Day


Soviet R-14 missiles

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Question 0100219:

In order to eliminate as rapidly as possible the conflict which endangers the cause of peace, to give an assurance to all people who crave peace, and to reassure the American people, who, I am certain, also want peace, as do the people of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Government, in addition to earlier instructions on the discontinuation of further work on weapons construction sites, has given a new order to dismantle the arms which you described as offensive, and to crate and return them to the Soviet Union.

Identify the author and the recipient of the above memorandum:


    (A)   George F. Kennan to Harry S. Truman
    (B)   Leonid Brezhnev to Richard M. Nixon
    (C)   Nikita Khruschev to John F. Kennedy
    (D)   Josef Stalin to John Foster Dulles
    (E)   Mikhail Gorbachev to Ronald Reagan


Answer and explanation


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