-What mood is Kennedy creating? Use evidence from the document.
Directions: Investigate the Cuban Missile Crisis. Discuss the documents below using the guiding questions.
A. Map of the U.S. and Cuba
1. What does the map tell you about the threat the U.S faced in 1962? 2. What do you think a blockade is?
B. Look at the following site and complete the activity on the page. Then answer:
3. What options did President Kennedy have to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis? 4. Do you think he made the right decision?
C. Analyze the following political cartoons.
5. What is the message of each cartoon? 6. Who do you think the two characters are?
D. Film clip of the anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis
7. How did the crisis come about? How dangerous of a time was this for the U.S? What strategies were used to avoid nuclear war?
E. Chairman Khrushchev's response to President Kennedy
8. What did the U.S, specifically President Kennedy, do or say that convinced the Soviets to turn around their ships, and more importantly, take apart their missiles in Cuba and send them back to the Soviet Union?