Cuban Missile Crisis! Can you avoid nuclear armageddon?

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Teachit Author
Cuban Missile Crisis! Can you avoid nuclear armageddon?
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Modern World c. 1900-present: Cold War
Resource type
Role play/debate/discussion
Complete lesson
A whole class role-play exercise, set during the the tense days of the crisis. Students are divided into two teams - the USA and USSR, and each plays a specific role as an advisor to the goverment from a military, political, diplomatic or intelligence point of view. They discuss how to react to each development as the crisis unfolds.

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02/03/2021

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02/03/2021

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31/05/2020

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29/04/2020

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20/03/2020

This is a really good game, but the students in my year 11 had some trouble understanding how to think about it from the point of view of the advisors.

Katherine Shea

31/05/2019

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31/05/2019

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