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Summary:

Learn amazing facts about US history's most dramatic moments - like the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962!

Table of Contents:

• Europe is divided after WWII
• World wages Cold War
• Fidel Castro seizes power
• Kennedy brothers come to DC
• United States fails at Bay of Pigs
• Khrushchev calls for respect
• Plane spies missiles in Cuba
• EXCOMM and Kennedy consider the options
• Missiles capable of destroying US cities
• US Navy quarantines Cuba
• Cubans down US plane
• Crisis serves as a warning
• 12 key dates.

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Sue Bradford , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

12 incredible facts about the Cuban Missile Crisis [by Edwards, S.B.]

Related Series:

Turning points in US history (12 Story Library (Firm))

Subjects:

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 — Juvenile literature

Cold War — Juvenile literature

Cuba — Foreign relations — United States — Juvenile literature

United States — Foreign relations — Cuba — Juvenile literature

Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 — Juvenile literature

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 — Juvenile literature

Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Cold War (1945-1989)

1945-1989

Diplomatic relations

United States

Cuba

Genres:

Juvenile works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
Accelerated Reader MG 5.5 1.0 178101 EN.

Audience:

Preteens
Children
Ages: 8-10.
Grades: 3-5.
710L (source: Lexile)

Physical Description:

32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

J972.9106 E26tw

ISBNs:

9781632351272

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015933982

OCLC Numbers:

921866863

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: jlg18497494