The Cuban Missile Crisis

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

• Understanding the Impact of Personality on
  Leadership.

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Defining terms

• Leadership
• The capacity to lead.
• Moral
• Sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience
  or ethical judgment.
• Machiavellian
• Marked by cunning, duplicity, or bad faith.

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Recommending student sources

• Need for reading materials
• Textbooks inadequate for Crisis
• Online source that you can control.
• Creating a specific reading list.
• ABC-CLIO materials.

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A war of Ideology and Unthinkable Weapons
Political and Economic
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Main Protagonists JF Kennedy and N Khrushchev at
Vienna Summit, 1961.
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Birds of a Feather F Castro and N Khrushchev in
ideological embrace.
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Secondary Leaders? Mao and U Thant
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Medium Range and Intermediate Ranges for Russian
Missiles.
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Evidence presented at the United Nations support
for a blockade.
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The US Jupiter IRBM 15 in Turkey
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The Proof Clear evidence of a secret build-up
of missiles (MRBM and IRBM) in Cuba.
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JFK and military advisors options?
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Air Strike and/or Invasion?
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Brinkmanship JFK will stop all Russians ships,
period.
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US naval vessel and patrol craft intercept and
ward off a Russian freighter.
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The democrat?

• Meaning of
• Leadership?
• Style?
• Restrictions?

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Public Opinion?Women Strike for Peace Group
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The Apparatchik?

• Meaning of
• Leadership?
• Style?
• Restrictions?

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The Marxist Revolutionary?

• Meaning of
• Leadership?
• Style?
• Restrictions?

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Leadership and the Crisis Impact.

• Personalities of the leaders.
• Domestic Impact of Foreign Policy.
• Ideological Conflict/Aspirations.
• Third World Rivalries.
• Relations with Allies (esp. USSR and Cuba).
• Nuclear Arms Race.

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Recommended Reading

• Mark J. White, Missiles in Cuba. 1997.
• John L. Gaddis, We Now Know Rethinking Cold War
  History. 1997
• Gaddis, Surprise, Security, and the American
  Experience. 2004
• Donald Kagan, On the Origins of War and the
  Preservation of Peace. 1995
• Wm J. Medland, The Cuban Missile Crisis Evolving
  Historical Perspectives. The History Teacher,
  Vol. 23, Nu 4, August 1990