Cuban Missile Crisis

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How did JFK respond to the news that the Soviets had placed nuclear weapon installations in Cuba?

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Blockading ships from entering or exiting Cuba

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Why did the USSR want to put missiles on Cuba?

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To counter the US missiles in Italy and Turkey

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Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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John F. Kennedy

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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Fidel Castro

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Kennedy approved an invasion plan called

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion

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The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

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How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being constructed in Cuba?

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from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

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The US secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles near the USSR in what two countries?

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Italy and Turkey

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What is the "thing" in the box? Options: naval blockade, quarantine, nuclear war, the Cold War, Fidel Castro

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nuclear war