Cuban Crisis Course
Dive into the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis using original documents, Cold War strategies, and worldwide responses. Tailored for humanities experts, it enhances analytical abilities, storytelling, and crisis assessment skills for education, scholarship, and policy roles. Over 50 characters ensure comprehensive overview.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course provides a focused examination of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, covering Cold War origins, key events, resolution, and lasting effects. Participants engage with primary sources to build timelines, critique historical views, and master research techniques, evidence analysis, and structured arguments on nuclear diplomacy.
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Develop skills
- Reconstruct the Cuban Missile Crisis timeline confidently from primary sources.
- Quickly analyse nuclear strategies including deterrence, MAD, and brinkmanship.
- Assess Cold War archives for bias, reliability, and supporting evidence in studies.
- Describe decision-making processes in NSC, EXCOMM, and Soviet Politburo contexts.
- Use historiography and international relations theories for balanced crisis accounts.
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