Cuban missile crisis

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Lesson schedule

-Introduction/Learning goal

-Engaging work form

-Politics during the Cuban missile crisis and Cold War

-Coming back to the learning goal 

Learning Goal:

I can explain the importance of politics and the role it played during the cuban missile crisis in a small summary of a couple of sentences

What is going to happen next?

What could have happened if Vasili Arkhipov authorized the launch? (you can be as creative as you want)

-Politics played a huge part

-Country leaders had an impossible responsibility 

-The governments decisions were crucial

-national security council and John F Kennedy played a major part during the crisis

-Naval quarantine 

-Vasili Arkhpov, Fidel Castro, Nikitha Kruschev,

-Politics were used as a weapon

-Different political ideologies between Soviet union and USA

-US:Capitalism, Citizens could vote and they were free

-Soviet union: Communism, A lot less freedom compared to the US

-Both countries thought their own ideology was the best

-John F kennedy tried to keep the people safe

-Cuba and the Soviet Union were focused on getting more powerful

What part did Politics play and how important were politics during the cuban missile crisis?