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May 5, 2015. PRESIDENT KENNEDY SOVIET PREMIER KHRUSHCHEV.

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1 May 5, 2015

2 PRESIDENT KENNEDY SOVIET PREMIER KHRUSHCHEV

3 CUBAN DICTATOR FIDEL CASTRO

4  1. Google “On the brink: from the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis”  2. Select the first website http://www.humanities.uci.edu/ http://www.humanities.uci.edu/  3. Table of Contents on page 88, enter answers in complete sentences there.  4. Read page 11 and answer question #1  5. Read the Bay of Pigs pgs. 17-20 and answer questions #2 and #3  6. Read the Cuban Missile Crisis pgs. 21-27 and answer questions #1-#11.  What is the cartoon on page 33 saying about the issue?

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