This lesson contains 25 slides, with text slides and 11 videos.
Items in this lesson
10. The Time of Television and Computers
10.2 The Cuban Missile Crisis
Slide 1 - Slide
people in this lesson
Krushchev
leader
USSR
Fidel Castro
leader
Cuba
Mao Zedong
Leader
China
Kennedy
president
USA
Slide 2 - Slide
Slide 3 - Slide
Slide 4 - Video
Slide 5 - Video
Missiles at a Soviet Military Parade in Moscow. These missiles had nuclear warheads and a range of 1,100 miles. Dated 1961.
Nuclear arms race
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Slide 7 - Video
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin lying in state in the hall of Trade Union House, Moscow. (March 12, 1953). Photo by Keystone/Getty
Nikita Krushchev
peaceful Coexistence
Destalinisation
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In the fall of 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev spent 12 days touring the United States at the invitation of President Eisenhower.
In the picture you can see Eisenhower holding a miniature Sputnik, a present from Krushchev.
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Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro
communism
Slide 10 - Slide
Slide 11 - Video
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Bay of Pigs Invasion.
a failed US invasion to end Castro's communist rule
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A picture, taken by an American spy plane, clearly shows rocket installations being constructed on the Island of Cuba.
This evidence led to the Cuba Crisis.
Castro turns to Moscow for help.
Soviet missiles on Cuba
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Source C
This newspaper map from the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows the distances from Cuba to various cities on the North American continent.
Slide 15 - Slide
Slide 16 - Video
The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet cargo ship ‘Anesov’, escorted by a US Navy plane and the destroyer ‘USS Barry’, as it leaves Cuba loaded with missiles. October 1962.