Timothy Ratliff

SLM-521

Web Dropin #5

June 10, 2006

COUNTDOWN TO NUCLEAR DEVASTATION:

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

At this point in our Cold War unit we have reached the highest tension that ever existed between the United States and the Soviet Union. Click on the following links and read about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Take notes on what you feel are the major events and turning points of the crisis and when they happened chronologically. After viewing your notes, click on the missile below and print out the chart. There are four spaces in the chart that you will fill in. I want you to fill in the top box with which side, the US or Soviet Union, you believe benefited the most from the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the other three boxes, I want you to write the three top reasons for your conclusion based on your reading and notes. We will get together in groups tomorrow to analyze your conclusions.

The National Security Archive

Fourteen Days in October

Cuban Missile Crisis

Russian Archives

The Avalon Project