Internet Exercises   Instructions: Enter your answers into the boxes below. If you'd like a print-out of your responses, click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page, and you will be taken to a printer-friendly page. If you have been instructed to submit your exercise online, enter both your and your instructor's name and e-mail address, then click the Email button at the bottom of the page. Your answers will be e-mailed immediately. Macintosh Users: If you have been instructed to submit your reponses to your instructor, you must enter your responses, then click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page to receive a printer-friendly version of your responses that you can then print and turn in to your instructor.   The Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy’s national address about the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 22, 1963 1. What does Kennedy say about the nature and range of the weapons in place in Cuba and those soon to be in place? 2. How does he represent the history of the deployment of nuclear arms by the United States and the Soviet Union? 3. What are the seven steps he indicates he is taking? 4. Which of the seven steps were the most likely to involve the United States in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union? 5. In what ways is the levels-of-analysis approach a useful way to explain the actions of the states, bureaucratic agencies, and individuals involved with this crisis? 6. Ask people who are older than 45 or so what they remember of the Cuban missile crisis and how it affected them. 7. Until the end of the cold war in the late 1980s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was quite real and weighed on the minds of many people. How would you feel if nuclear war involving the United States had a much higher probability than it does now? Would you live your life any differently? How has the threat of terrorism affected you?     Student Name:* Student Email:*   Professor Name:*   Professor Email:*         *required     Back to Exercise List