Cambridge Chapter 4 The Cuban Missile Crisis
1. How did the American focus of the crisis diverge from Cuba's and the Soviets?(80)
2. What were the origins of the crisis? (81)
3. What drove the Cubans away from conciliation during 1960? (81)
4. What was Operation Mongoose? What relevance did it have for Cuba in this story?
5. What were the pressures on Khrushcev? Why did he decide to go ahead with deployment of missiles in Cuba? (83)
6. What was the Munich Analogy? (85)
7. How was the leadership of Kennedy and Khrushcev similar? (87)
8. What was Khrushcev's rationale for putting missiles in Cuba, as explained in his letter to Kennedy? Was it a valid reason? (88)
9. How were the personalities of Kennedy and Khrushcev relevant to both creating the crisis, and wriggling out of it? (Conclusions)
10. Documents. Questions 1, 3 and 5
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