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Use the reading below to answer the question. Analysis: How would you describe the tone of this section of President Kennedy’s speech? Cite textual evidence to support your claims.

...Neither the United States of America nor the world community of nations can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any nation, large or small. We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril. Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.

For many years both the Soviet Union and the United States, recognizing this fact, have deployed strategic nuclear weapons with great care, never upsetting the precarious status quo which insured that these weapons would not be used in the absence of some vital challenge. Our own strategic missiles have never been transferred to the territory of any other nation under a cloak of secrecy and deception...

...But this secret, swift, and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles--in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the United States and the nations of the Western Hemisphere, in violation of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American and hemispheric policy--this sudden, clandestine decision to station strategic weapons for the first time outside of Soviet soil--is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country if our courage and our commitments are ever to be trusted again by either friend or foe.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The first two paragraphs are a summary of fact. The tone is cool and collective. It puts in simple language that a threat, up until the Cuban Missel Crisis, was treated with respect and cool heads prevailed.

But once the soviets were seen as instigators of a policy that clearly violated the Monroe and later the Truman doctrines (though this was not stated), the tone changed and Kennedy's anger and steadfast determination to meat the challenge came out. Much is going on in that last stanza. Kennedy is warning the Soviet Union not to go to far. Their action will not be ignored and it will not be let slide under the rug. He will meet force with force if need be.

His tone is still calm, but he is both angry and determined.