 Threats to existence  Cuban Missile Crisis  Simulation – Solve the Problem  Modern Nuclear War.

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 Threats to existence  Cuban Missile Crisis  Simulation – Solve the Problem  Modern Nuclear War

Page 76 Bell ringer: Should the US be involved in the affairs of other nations? Why or why not? Objective: Analyze how international crises impact global policies. Describe the ways the post-WWII Superpowers competed for global dominance Page 77 Attach “Cuban Missile Crisis” Page 78 Attach: “Communism in Cuba” Page 79 Leave Blank, Title “Perspective”

 Rank the top five greatest threats to human existence

1962: The intense thirteen day political standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States. Russian missiles were placed in Cuba which threatened U.S. security.

The pilot of an American U-2 spy plane passing over Cuba on October 14, 1962, photograph ed a missile being assembled for installation.

1. Students are in groups of three 1.Cuba 2.Soviet Union 3.United States 2. Students quietly read about their country’s Overview and Perspective. 3. Students complete summary of perspective. 4. Students individually write three possible solutions to their problem. 5. Students share each persons perspective and record those perspectives in the correct box. 6. Students debate over possible solutions to the crisis. 7. Students agree upon a solution and record it in the correct box.

President Kennedy was briefed about the situation, and he immediately called together a group of advisors known as the executive committee, or ExCom. If you were an advisor name one thing that you would advise the president to do?

Kennedy ordered a blockade on Cuba until the missiles were removed.

 Soviet ships bound for Cuba neared the line of U.S. vessels enforcing the blockade.  But the Soviet ships stopped short of the blockade.

Use your reading, “Communism in Cuba” and write down the solution that the U.S. and the Soviet Union came to.

 Look back at your list of the ten greatest threats to human existence  Re-rank based on today’s lesson › Does your list change?

 Does every nation deserve to have nuclear weapons? › Why or why not? › Give at least three reasons FOR or AGAINST