This lesson goes through the history of Cuban/US relations from the Battista regime through the Cuban Missile Crisis. The lesson is a simulation (similar to role playing), where students are divided into groups to represent the US, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. It includes sections on the important characters (Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy), the context, the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs, and the breakdown of the Cuban Missile Crisis from Operation Anadyr through the trapped submarine. At import