This assessment gauges whether students can identify the historical event or development depicted in a photograph from the past and evaluate the historical significance of the event. Successful students will draw on their knowledge of the past to explain that this photograph depicts the Cuban Missile Crisis and then explain how the event was historically significant.
![Soviet missile equipment being loaded at port in Cuba 1962. From the Library of Congress](/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/assessments/2021-04/Soviet%20missile%20equipment.png?itok=efF9ABs8)