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Cuban Missile Crisis
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The teacher will show a PowerPoint presentation and discuss the events that preceded the Cuban Missile Crisis campaign highlighting important facts using a 13-day timeline model filled with historical images. The teacher will then distribute to each student a handout showing Cuba and the United Sates. The students will need to label their maps with the following: Cuba, Florida, Havana, Miami, the distance between the two countries, and the body of water that separates the two countries. Next, students will be shown a large-scale map identifying the missile silos that were located on the island of Cuba. Following this, the students will listen to the broadcasted speech of President John F. Kennedy’s televised address to the people of the United States on October 22, 1962. Students will follow along with a written copy of his speech.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962[R]eproduces on microfiche over 15,000 pages of rarely-seen documents from the highest levels of government. In many cases, these materials have been gathered by the National Security Archive through its own--or other researchers'--Freedom of Information Act requests.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962 that threatened all-out nuclear war. The dispute involved the Soviet placement of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba.
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Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies will host a four-day symposium on the Cuban Missile Crisis at 40 from Wednesday, October 23 to Saturday, October 26. Secretary Robert S. McNamara and the premier of a new Errol Morris film about him are among the highlights of the symposium, which ... features several panels by a team of scholars who participated directly in a recent Havana conference about the Crisis. That event brought together key decisionmakers from October 1962, scholars of the period, and a body of newly declassified documents to analyze those fateful thirteen days. A symposium full schedule is presented below. For more information call 863.2809 or visit www.WatsonInstitute.org.
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Some of the people who played key roles in the missile crisis are meeting in Havana, Cuba over the weekend to reflect on the experience and its relevance today. The Bush Administration has said Kennedy's handling of the missile crisis was an example of the effectiveness of pre-emptive action -- the kind it may soon take against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
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The teacher will know if the students have succeeded in learning the instructional objectives of this lesson by reviewing their written exercises for accurate descriptions of facts and events that took place during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In addition, the teacher will answer the following questions constructively about the lesson delivery:
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