Cuban Missile Crisis

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This cartoon represents which topic? Options: the Space Race, the Arms Race, the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the Earth's environmental problems

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the Arms Race

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Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Fidel Castro

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Who is the man with the "missile teeth"?

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Fidel Castro

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

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Nikita Khrushchev

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The agreement between the US and the Soviet Union was that they would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US would________________?

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Promise not to invade Cuba

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Out of the options presented to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he elected to go with which one? "quarantine" or blockade Cuba, airstrike on key bases, launch a full invasion and overthrow Castro, use diplomacy to appeal to Castro

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"quarantine" or blockade Cuba

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Many say that U.S. President Kennedy's "greatest moment" was his successful _________.

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handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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WHO is the "dentist" (holing the pliers)?

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Nikita Khrushchev