Assignment: Cuban Missile Crisis: Primary Source Analysis + Paragraph Outline

WORLD HISTORY-B
2025-08-15T02:49:18Z

Due: Feb 8 by 11:59pm

Overview: The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the important "hot" moments of the Cold War. Today, we are looking at how this crisis was resolved and how the world avoided nuclear war.

Purpose: In this assignment, you are reviewing letters between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy. In these letters, they are negotiating an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis. By the end of this assignment, you should be able to explain why the Cuban Missile Crisis ended, and why the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba.

Materials

Documents

Questions

Directions: First, download the documents and questions. Read carefully through each of the 3 documents. Then, answer the questions- there are 9 total (3 per document). Answer each question using 2 complete, thorough, and detailed sentences and 1 specific detail. Cite each detail using the document letter. Your detail / quote does not count as one of your two sentences.

When you are done, write a mini outline of what a paragraph response (hint hint) might include to help you answer the essential question "Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?" Instructions on how to write a mini outline can be found here.

**NOTE: Question 4 can be 1 sentence and does NOT need a quote as part of the answer**

What am I turning in?

Your answers to the document questions

An outline about what a paragraph response (hint hint) might include to help you answer the essential question "Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?"

Modified Directions: Only follow these directions if you have my permission. Pick 2 of the 3 documents to read. Answer the 3 questions for each of the documents you chose (6 questions total). Answer each questions using 1 complete sentences, and 1 specific piece of evidence to support your answer. Cite each detail using the document letter. "Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?" in 2 sentences.

What am I turning in? Modified

Your answers to the document questions

Your answer to the question "Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?"

Due Date:

11:59pm Sunday 2/8

Overview: The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of the important "hot" moments of the Cold War. Today, we are looking at how this crisis was resolved and how the world avoided nuclear war.

Purpose: In this assignment, you are reviewing letters between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and US President John F Kennedy. In these letters, they are negotiating an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis. By the end of this assignment, you should be able to explain why the Cuban Missile Crisis ended, and why the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba.

Materials

Documents

Questions

Directions: First, download the documents and questions. Read carefully through each of the 3 documents. Then, answer the questions- there are 9 total (3 per document). Answer each question using 2 complete, thorough, and detailed sentences and 1 specific detail. Cite each detail using the document letter. Your detail / quote does not count as one of your two sentences.

When you are done, write a mini outline of what a paragraph response (hint hint) might include to help you answer the essential question "Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?" Instructions on how to write a mini outline can be found here.

**NOTE: Question 4 can be 1 sentence and does NOT need a quote as part of the answer**

What am I turning in?

Your answers to the document questions

An outline about what a paragraph response (hint hint) might include to help you answer the essential question "Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?"

Modified Directions: Only follow these directions if you have my permission. Pick 2 of the 3 documents to read. Answer the 3 questions for each of the documents you chose (6 questions total). Answer each questions using 1 complete sentences, and 1 specific piece of evidence to support your answer. Cite each detail using the document letter. "Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?" in 2 sentences.

What am I turning in? Modified

Your answers to the document questions

Your answer to the question "Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?"

Due Date:

11:59pm Sunday 2/8