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Cuban Crisis Course

Cuban Crisis Course
from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country

What will I learn?

The Cuban Crisis Course offers a concise, source-driven study of the 1962 confrontation, from Cold War background to resolution and long-term impact. You will work with key primary documents, reconstruct timelines, and assess competing interpretations while learning practical methods for archival research, critical evaluation of evidence, and clear, well-cited argumentation on nuclear strategy and diplomacy.

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Develop skills

  • Reconstruct the Cuban Missile Crisis timeline using primary sources with confidence.
  • Analyze nuclear strategy concepts like deterrence, MAD, and brinkmanship fast.
  • Evaluate Cold War archives for bias, reliability, and corroboration in case studies.
  • Explain crisis decision-making in NSC, EXCOMM, and Soviet Politburo settings.
  • Apply historiographical and IR theories to craft clear, balanced crisis narratives.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

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