Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War | Potential Outcomes of a Nuclear Strike

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Keywords
cuba latin america cold war cuban missile crisis kennedy castro krushchev soviet union russia nuclear war arms race war Three Men Go to War
Subjects
History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War | Potential Outcomes of a Nuclear Strike

This segment describes how U2 spy planes discovered secret Soviet missile sites in Cuba, the response by the United States to this discovery, and the Soviet rationale behind their placement. Several historians offer their views on the potential outcome of a nuclear strike by either the United States or the Soviet Union.
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PBS Learning Media

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