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The Chrysalidsby John Wyndham

A Novel Study:

1. What do you know about America in the 1955 ­ 1965 period?

2. Can you talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis?

3. What do you know about nuclear missiles? Their range and their damages?

4. how much do you know about The Bible and The Old Testament?

# I. America and USSR involved insmall wars with puppet states / nations Called "The Cold War"

#2.Russians wanted to move nuclearmissiles onto Cuban soil. The Americansalready had their missiles in Turkey.

→ No ICBMs yet, so range mattered.

NB → MAD Mutually Assured Destruction.

The Chrysalids assumes that the missiles made it to Cuban soil; that the world went to war.

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The range of Russian medium range missles

Cuba

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= USSR and The Western Powers win the Second World War= USSR

­ the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics­ 1917 The Russian Revolution

: the end of Tzarist Russia and the start of the communists(?) state

= Communism?­ More equality of opportunity­ No private ownership

: the state owns all of the industry and important elements of the economy

VS

= Capitalism?­ America and others­ Private ownership­ Belief that the individual is better than the government

Communism goes bad under Stalin, after 1923

= 1939 ­ Germany goes to war, allied with USSR v Poland= 1940/41 ­ Germany invades USSR, USSR joins the west against

Germany= 1945 ­ War ends and the Alliance ends

** USSR and communist way of life now seen as the enemy to freedom loving Western powers**

The Cold War era begins

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