Honors: Cuban Missile Crisis

How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved?

After viewing the video, complete the guided questions for each document.

Document A: Letter From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy
1. What deal does Khrushchev propose to Kennedy?
2. What is the tone of this letter? Provide a quote to support your claim.
3. Do you think Khrushchev has the upper hand? Why or why not?

 Document B: Letter from President Kennedy to Chairman Khrushchev
4. In this letter Kennedy restates Khrushchev’s proposals. Does Kennedy include
everything Khrushchev proposed? If not, why might have he left something out?
5. What is the tone of this letter? Provide a quote to support your claim.
6. Do you think Kennedy has the upper hand? Why or why not?

Document C: Russian Ambassador Cable to Soviet Foreign Ministry
7. What new information do you learn from Robert Kennedy?
8. Why do you think this exchange happened in a private meeting (rather than in an
official letter)? [Remember, Document B was published in the New York Times].
9. How do you think Robert Kennedy felt during this meeting? Provide evidence.

Cuban Missile Crisis Original Documents

Political Cartoon analysis Activity: Use this cartoon for McCarthyism/HUAC make up

Cartoon Analysis:
Visuals and Words

How can fear and histeria affect a nation?

Be sure to have read Chapters 13 - 15.

Pay attention to the Cold War events of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Administration.

Today's key terms: Brinkmanship, Massive retaliation, covert operations

People to know:  Alger Hiss, Rosenbergs,  Joseph McCarthy, Khrushchev, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson

Duck and Cover

Today's assignment:
Create Annotated timeline of the following events:
Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, Warsaw Pact, Chinese Revolution, Korean War, Taiwan Crisis, Khrushchev, Eisenhower Doctrine, U2 incident, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Sputnik, Berlin Wall.
Question:  How are these events related? What would you predict to be the next event(s) in the timeline? 

Annotation = add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment.