Cuban Missile Crisis

This cartoon represents which topic?

• the Space Race

• the Arms Race

• the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• the Earth's environmental problems

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Felipe Gonzales

• Fidel Castro

• Pancho Villa

Who is the man with the "missile teeth"?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Raul Rodriguez

• Che Guevara

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

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

• Inchon Invasion

• Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

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

• from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

• from US spy satellites

• from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

• the British intercepted the telegram which outlined the nuclear missile project in Cuba

• from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

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

• Take missiles out of Poland

• Promise not to invade Cuba

• Promised to not attack the Soviet Union

• Take missiles out of the Soviet Union

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

Many say that POTUS Kennedy's "greatest moment" was his successful _________.

• creation of the Peace Corps

• victory in the Vietnam War

• handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• second term

Who is the man on the right?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Vasili Arkhipov

• John F. Kennedy

• Yuri Gagarin