Cuban Crisis Course
Delve into the Cuban Missile Crisis via primary sources, Cold War strategies, and worldwide responses. Tailored for humanities professionals, this course hones analytical prowess, narrative abilities, and crisis interpretation skills for teaching, research, and policy applications.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Cuban Missile Crisis Course provides a succinct, source-based examination of the 1962 standoff, spanning Cold War origins to resolution and enduring effects. Engage with vital primary documents, build timelines, appraise rival interpretations, and master techniques for archival research, evidence critique, and precise, referenced arguments on nuclear strategy and diplomacy.
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Develop skills
- Reconstruct the Cuban Missile Crisis timeline confidently using primary sources.
- Analyse nuclear strategy concepts such as deterrence, MAD, and brinkmanship swiftly.
- Evaluate Cold War archives for bias, reliability, and corroboration in case studies.
- Explain crisis decision-making in NSC, EXCOMM, and Soviet Politburo contexts.
- Apply historiographical and IR theories to create clear, balanced crisis narratives.
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