Complete CMC Questions by Monday!

Cuban Missile Crisis

Epilogue: On the Brink

Castro isn't going to be happy for long :(

Please complete the 11 questions at the bottom of your Cold War Notes by Monday, Dec. 15 at 8:20 a.

They are under this heading:

Cuban Missile Crisis (con’t)

Epilogue: On the Brink

DIRECTIONS: Read “CMC - Epilogue” (Pages 25 - 33). Answer questions 1 - 11. The reading is in your shared reading folder.

October 20, 1962: The Decision    

Cuban Missile Crisis: Homework & Quiz Information

The Real Cuban Missile Crisis

The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) meeting in the Cabinet Room on October 29, 1962. From left: JFK, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Pierre Salinger. 

Please read the document - Real Cuban Missile Crisis - that I have included in your shared reading folder.

There will be a quiz on Monday (C Block: Tuesday)  that is based on the homework that was due Dec. 3 and the reading above. The study guide is the homework questions on the Cuban Missile Crisis and the general argument in the reading.

About the National Security Council Executive Committee (ExComm)

In establishing the ExComm by a memorandum on October 22, Kennedy designated himself as chairman and listed the group’s core members. They were:

• President Kennedy
• Vice President Lyndon Johnson
• Dean Rusk (Secretary of State)
• Robert McNamara (Secretary of Defense)
• Douglas Dillon (Secretary of the Treasury)
• Robert Kennedy (Attorney General)
• John McCone (Director of Central Intelligence)
• General Maxwell Taylor (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
• Llewellyn Thompson (Ambassador-at-Large)
• Theodore Sorensen (Special Counsel)
• McGeorge Bundy (Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs)

Cuban Missile Crisis Homework

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Was Castro really a pawn between the Superpowers?

For the next three weeks (Dec. 1 to 19) we are going to study the Cuban Missile Crisis. This crucial unit will be used to assess your ability in taking a Paper 1 document-based exam and a Paper 2 essay exam that will include a counter claim and a historical school of thought. The P1 exam is scheduled for Thurs., Dec. 18 and the P2 exam is scheduled for Fri., Dec. 19.

HOMEWORK

Please complete the following questions on your 

Cold War NOTES by 8:20 a. Wed., Dec. 3

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

DIRECTIONS: Read “CMC - Introduction” (Pages 1, ii, and 8 - 14) and “CMC - Moment of Decision” (pages 15 - 17). Answer questions 1 - 9 from the “Introduction” reading and questions 10 - 15 from the “Moment” reading. Both readings are in your shared reading folder.

Khrushchev and the Second Cold War Homework

Khrushchev and the Second Cold War

The "Wall" in 1972

Please complete the following new set of questions on your Cold War Notes!

Khrushchev and the Second Cold War 1956-63

DIRECTIONS: Read “Cold War - Ch. 6” (Pgs. 107-123). It is about the “Year of Crises, 1956, and the Berlin Crisis (1958-61). It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 12 questions. 

Your answers are due by 8:20 a. Thursday, Nov. 20

Double Quiz Study Guide & New Homework Due Wednesday

Stalin Dies! Khrushchev Takes Over & The Development of the Space Race

Ding Dong! The wicked dictator is dead! March 5, 1953.

First, be sure you have finished The Korean War questions that were due at 3:10 p. today.

Second, please have the next two sets of questions completed by Wednesday at 8:20 a. They are posted to your Cold War Notes document. They are:

Khrushchev, De-Stalinization, and Peaceful Co-Existence

DIRECTIONS: Read "“Khrushchev and Peaceful Co-existence” (Pgs. 88-92). It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 9 questions. 

  

The Space Race

DIRECTIONS: Read "“Khrushchev and Peaceful Co-existence” (Pgs. 93-96). It is about the second test of peaceful co-existence, the Space Race. It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 13 questions.

STUDY GUIDE FOR WEDNESDAY'S DOUBLE QUIZ

• Make sure you know your answers to questions 2, 2a. - 2f. under "U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s" on your NOTES.
• Know the difference between "rollback" and "containment."
• Be able to list the "Six Major Events" that caused the U.S. to feel it was losing political and technical race with the Communists in the 1950s. (Question 4 on U.S. Foreign Policy.)
• What is an ICBM?
• Know the formal names of North and South Korean and who led each at the beginning of the Korean War.
• Know - in general terms - how the Korean War unfolded.
• Know why MacArthur was fired by Truman.
• Make sure you understand the 1950-era context of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's quote:  "Asia is where the communist conspirators have decided to make their play for global conquest.   If we lose this war, the fall of Europe is inevitable.   There is no choice but victory."
• How did Stalin's death impact the end of the Korean conflict?
• In a paragraph or two be preapared to address the Cummings' quote: “The civil conflict had not been worked through but frozen by outside intervention.” (Study questions No. 8 and 9 under the Korean War Notes.)
• Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower? How did he approach Communism?
• Who was John Foster Dulles? How did he view the United States’ role against the Communists?