1. The Cuban missile crisis:
Where is it?
What do you know about it?
Is this accurate?
What caused it?
How would this have affected the arms race? .

2. Weapons on offer, and their ranges – why important?

3. Put the causes of the Cuban Missile Crisis in chronological order…
A. Cuba receives arms supplies from the Soviet Union
B Cuban exiles are met by Castro’s forces and captured or killed at the Bay of Pigs
E. US spy planes discover nuclear missile sites on Cuba
F. Soviet Union increase their supply of arms to Cuba, including missiles, tanks and jet fighters
D. A secret CIA plan attempted to use Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro
C. Fidel Castro overthrows American backed government in Cuba
… and select the most importance cause of the Crisis. Why is it the most important?

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5. Kennedy’s choice 1:
What to do with the USSR?
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6. Kennedy’s choice 1:
What to do with the USSR?
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7. Kennedy’s choice 2:
How to remove missiles?
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8. Kennedy’s choice 2:
How to remove missiles?
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9. Results of the Crisis ‘Hot line’ set up.
(2) United States secretly removed all its nuclear missiles from Turkey and Italy.
(3) A Test Ban Treaty was signed between the two countries in August 1963.
(4) The prisoners captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion were exchanged by Castro for $60 million in food, drugs, medicine and cash.
(5) The United States became convinced that the Soviet Union would not go to war over another communist country.

10. How do you think each side felt after the Crisis was over?
What could the two sides do to ensure that such a situation could not occur again?

11. Did anyone ‘win’ the Cuban Missile crisis?
P.E.E

12. POINT: EVIDENCE: ANALYSIS: LINK:
Putting it into a exam style paragraph… Did the Cuban missiles crisis lead to an improvement in relations?
POINT:
EVIDENCE:
ANALYSIS:
LINK:

13. Exam question planning; To what extent did the arms race make the world a more dangerous place in the years 1949 – 63?

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