Hot Spots in the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Hot Spot Prezi
Before we begin today, we will be exploring different hot spots that existed during the Cold War by going through this Prezi together. For today we will stop at the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest we ever came to actually going to war with the USSR.
To Place... or not to place? That is the question.
To Place... or not to place? That is the question.
Now that we have a better understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, we are going to have a debate on whether or not the USSR should have placed missiles on Cuba in the first place.
(This is simulation 1)
End Game
The next simulation we will do makes you practice making decisions from the view point of advisors to the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is simulation 3.
The list of advisors you will be pretending to be is found here.