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Does every country have the right to have nuclear weapons? Why or why not?

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS SIMULATION 1. Students are in groups of three 2. Students quietly read about their Overview and Perspective.3. Students summarize their role and 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.

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS1962: 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.

DISCOVERING THE MISSILES The pilot of an American U-2 spy plane passing over Cuba on

October 14, 1962, photographed a missile being assembled for installation.

EXCOM 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?

WHAT WOULD KENNEDY DO?

CUBAN BLOCKADE Kennedy ordered a blockade on Cuba until the missiles were

removed.

STANDOFF AT SEA• Soviet ships bound for Cuba neared the line of U.S. vessels

enforcing the blockade.

• But the Soviet ships stopped short of the blockade.

SOLUTION Use your reading and write down the solution that the U.S. and

the Soviet Union came to.

NUCLEAR WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD

NUCLEAR WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD

NUCLEAR WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD