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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Timeline of Events

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Timeline of Events. Name. 6 th August 1945. 9 th August 1945. Brief Timeline of Hiroshima/ Nagasaki. Reasons FOR dropping the Bomb. Retaliation for Pearl Harbour To “end the war quickly” Some say lives were saved as USA didn’t have to make a land invasion

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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Timeline of Events

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  1. The Cuban Missile Crisis: Timeline of Events Name

  2. 6th August 1945 9th August 1945

  3. Brief Timeline of Hiroshima/ Nagasaki

  4. Reasons FOR dropping the Bomb • Retaliation for Pearl Harbour • To “end the war quickly” • Some say lives were saved as USA didn’t have to make a land invasion • To test a nuclear bomb ‘for real’ • To send a message to Russia

  5. Reasons AGAINST dropping the Bomb • Immoral - many innocent civilians suffered (between 140,000 and 600,000 deaths). • Some say Japan was going to surrender soon anyway. • The USA might have been trialling the nuclear bomb on real people. • It provoked an international arms race, which led to the nearest possibility of nuclear war – The Cuban Missile Crisis.

  6. If a nuclear bomb hit Buckingham Palace… https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

  7. What happens when a nuclear weapon is dropped? • Within ½ mile of the centre all the people would die. • Within 3 miles there would be complete destruction of buildings and firestorms and 90% of people would die. • The temperature at the centre of the blast would reach millions of degrees c. • Winds would rage at 1000 mph

  8. …effects further out… • Buildings would still collapse up to 10 miles away • Exposed skin would burn from heat rays • Lots of radiation would be released into the air causing radiation sickness

  9. …far reaching effects. • Effects would be even further reaching with black radioactive rain falling throughout the region • A bomb exploded on the ground could spread radiation over large distances and be spread by the wind even further • The effects would reach far into the future with survivors getting leukaemia and cancer years later, and affecting their children and grandchildren

  10. The Soviet Union developed their own nuclear weapons shortly after the US in 1949. • Two superpowerswith different political ideologies began forming alliances with other nations to champion their influence. • ‘Cold War’ - because there was no ‘Hot’ direct warfare between the two countries. Instead mass stockpiling of nuclear weapons in an arms race created conflict and suspicion. • Weapons stockpiling resulted in Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) – the logic that neither country would attack the other with a nuclear weapon because they would suffer a similar attack in retaliation. • The Cold War ended in 1991, but the consequences continue to shape world politics The Cold War

  11. The Cuban Missile Crisis Some say it was the closest the world came to a nuclear war…

  12. Any Questions? Any Questions?

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