Grade Range: 9-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 90 MinutesDate Posted: 9/21/2010
In this lesson plan students will examine primary sources to determine the level of threat caused by the buildup of Soviet nuclear missiles and weapons sites in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis and will analyze President Kennedy’s response. This resource was produced to accompany the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Discussions, Museum education
The family fallout shelter represents the public policy assumptions of the atomic age, namely, th...
weapon, Soviet Union, military strategy, missile, 1900s, JFK, 1900s, diplomacy, Castro, Fidel, 20th century, 1960s, Cuban missile crisis, Cuba, Khrushchev, Nikita, cold war, military history, nuclear, October, USSR, conflict