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Trade Relations at Geneva

United States of America · Government / Democratic Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1962

John Fitzgerald Kennedy3 February 1962

Geneva · Government / Democratic Party Government

In response to the Cuban alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy extended measures by Executive Order, widening the scope of the trade restrictions

Names involved

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Provenance

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