Learning Resources. Exhibition Self-Guide Use this guide to enhance your visit! It highlights the service and sacrifice of generations of American men and women, provides an exhibit overview, and directs you to activity stations in the exhibition. This document is in PDF format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. For Visiting School Groups The Museum invites students to connect with people, ideas, and events of the past through an exciting array of standards-based programs. Visit our School Visits page for more informaiton. Gallery interpreters will be stationed throughout the exhibition and in a special interactive area in the War of Independence section on a regular basis For In-Classroom Learning The Price of Freedom: Americans at War teacher’s manual Supporting Videos and Individual Lessons Supporting Images and Worksheets Supporting Materials (8.8 MB Zip) Map of Every War Ever. 50 Years Ago: The Cuban Missile Crisis - In Focus.
On October 15, 1962, a group of CIA analysts assigned to review aerial photographs of Cuba identified several newly established Soviet medium-range ballistic missile installations -- bases within 100 miles of the United States. The State Department was notified that night, and President John F. Kennedy was briefed the next morning, setting in motion a crisis that brought the world frighteningly close to nuclear war. The U.S. considered options, deployed troops and weapons to Florida, confronted the Soviets at the UN, and shortly set up a naval blockade of Cuba. For 13 tense days, the crisis deepened and people around the world feared the very real possibility of a new, horrific worldwide conflict.
On October 27, the U.S. and Soviets reached a secret agreement, where Kennedy would order the removal of missiles in southern Italy and Turkey, and Khrushchev would remove all missiles in Cuba. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: U.S. Evidence presented by the U.S. President John F. U.S. Britain's Royal Navy in the First World War - animated | News.
Veterans History Project.