Progress Report Grades Posted | Quiz Guide

Preparing for ExComm Simulation: 

October 16, 1962

Oct. 16, '62 | Dear Diary: Khrushchev is being really weird. 

ExCOMM PRESENTATIONS: On Monday you'll be assigned to groups and begin planning for your presentations on what option you would recommend to President Kennedy with regards to Khrushchev's actions in Cuba by October 16, 1962. Your group's presentation will be given on Tuesday.

PROGRESS REPORT GRADES HAVE BEEN POSTED: Please note that I have decided to include your "scaled" grades on your I.B. exam you took at the end of September. I arrived at this conclusion while considering the amount of growth you've demonstrated as a group in the past two months. Your scaled grades reflect what I believe you are more than capable of when you take your Paper 2 exam on the Cuban Missile Crisis on Friday, Dec. 19. Check the gradebook here.

MONDAY QUIZ STUDY GUIDE: On Monday you will have a brief quiz on the homework that was due this past Wednesday. The questions will come straight from the homework assignments. It will mostly be very short answers, but there will be at least one rapid response question. There will also be a geography question. Here is a study guide:

• Make sure you can identify Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and Nicaragua on a map.
• Know at least five events that the U.S. was involved in an effort to contain Communism up to 1961. (i.e. Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan)
• Know the two specific agreements the helped the U.S. influence Caribbean and Central American policy.
• Know two major countries other than Cuba where the U.S. had a major involvement.
• Know two factors that led to Batista's downfall in Cuba.
• Why did Castro turn against the U.S. before the Bay of Pigs?
• Knowing Cuba was allied with the Soviet Union, why was the discovery of nuclear missiles a shock to the United States?
• By October 1962 why was Berlin (once again) a cause for concern for Kennedy?