It is never an easy task to decide on a single topic to do a project on. Choosing a topic for our History Day project, however, was not very difficult to do. We decided to do our project on the Cuban Missile Crisis. We knew that we would be able to find a large amount of information on this subject and it was a topic that sparked the attention of each member of our group.
We conducted all of our research using the Internet. We went to our local library numerous times and failed to find any sufficient information. However, whenever typing “Cuban Missile Crisis” into a search engine, we had many hits come up concerning our topic. Most of the websites served as very efficient secondary sources available for use to us. Luckily, a few of these websites contained primary documents such as memorandums and telephone recordings between the officials and others involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. We found the Internet to be the best way to find sufficient information on our topic.
We decided to make our project a website. Each member of our group is very computer literate and is able to work on computers with ease. Each of us has also had previous experience in making a website. We knew exactly what to do when beginning to work on this project. If we had chosen a different category to enter in, we might have had to spend more of our time researching how to actually make our project, rather than the information within it.
Our topic, the Cuban Missile Crisis, fits into this year’s History Day theme because it is a historical event full of diplomacy and debate. The Cold War was occurring during this time between the United States and the Soviet Union over communism and nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union is, at this time, a communist nation with Cuba following its lead. The United States placed missiles in Turkey which was close enough to perform an attack against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, also, placed missiles in Cuba to place an attack against the United States. This resulted in a large debate between the Soviet Union leader, Nikita Khrushchev, and the United States President John F. Kennedy over whether or not missiles were actually present in Cuba. The whole Cuban Missile Crisis, itself, is a large diplomatic mark in the history of our world.
We conducted all of our research using the Internet. We went to our local library numerous times and failed to find any sufficient information. However, whenever typing “Cuban Missile Crisis” into a search engine, we had many hits come up concerning our topic. Most of the websites served as very efficient secondary sources available for use to us. Luckily, a few of these websites contained primary documents such as memorandums and telephone recordings between the officials and others involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. We found the Internet to be the best way to find sufficient information on our topic.
We decided to make our project a website. Each member of our group is very computer literate and is able to work on computers with ease. Each of us has also had previous experience in making a website. We knew exactly what to do when beginning to work on this project. If we had chosen a different category to enter in, we might have had to spend more of our time researching how to actually make our project, rather than the information within it.
Our topic, the Cuban Missile Crisis, fits into this year’s History Day theme because it is a historical event full of diplomacy and debate. The Cold War was occurring during this time between the United States and the Soviet Union over communism and nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union is, at this time, a communist nation with Cuba following its lead. The United States placed missiles in Turkey which was close enough to perform an attack against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, also, placed missiles in Cuba to place an attack against the United States. This resulted in a large debate between the Soviet Union leader, Nikita Khrushchev, and the United States President John F. Kennedy over whether or not missiles were actually present in Cuba. The whole Cuban Missile Crisis, itself, is a large diplomatic mark in the history of our world.
