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Clouds Over Cuba: The Cuban Missile Crisis and What Might Have Been

Clouds Over Cuba: The Cuban Missile Crisis and What Might Have Been

This is a documentary in six parts with a seventh counterfactual piece available.  As one watches the documentary, a Document Dossier accumulates allowing people to look in more detail at the subjects being discussed on the documentary.  These "documents" include photos, tapes of ExComm meetings and presidential phone calls, videos shot in the 1950s and 1960s, audio clips, copies of letters, and videos of modern experts discussing...

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Keywords:
Cuba, United States, missile crisis, History, USSR, 1960s, John F. Kennedy, cold war
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Material Type:
Learning Object Repository
Date Added to MERLOT:
October 10, 2013
Date Modified in MERLOT:
August 4, 2018
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Submitter:
Sue Patrick
Primary Audience:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:
Website
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Technical Requirements:
PC/Mac or tablets; can be sync with mobile; audio (headphones or speakers)
Language:
English
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No
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Sue Patrick
Sue Patrick (Faculty)
6 years ago
Well-done documentary that can be used in segments. Production quality is high. Wonderful set of primary sources associated with it. However, you cannot get to the primary sources unless you first enter the documentary and "acquire" them by letting the documentary play.
Used in course? Yes
Time spent reviewing site: 3 hours