1960s Review

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Edwardo Obstinado

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Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy block around Cuba?

• Khrushchev removed all Soviet missiles from Cuba.

• An American spy plane caught the Soviet Union placing nuclear weapons in Cuba.

• Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba and launches his new line of army fatigues with matching beards.

• Khrushchev led a conference in Yalta but the US was not invited.

• Castro threatened to launch four missiles at the US if Kennedy refused to take down the US missiles in Turkey.

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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

Shutting off of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.

• blockade

• containment

• perestroika

• satellites

The leader of the communist revolution in Cuba during the 1950's, who became an anti-American dictator.

• Fidel Castro

• Lech Walesa

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Ho Chi Minh

An attempt by the Soviet Union in 1962 to place nuclear missiles in Cuba directed toward the United States.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• Detente

A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nuclear and controversial weapons.

• Arms Race

• Domino Theory

• Glasnost

• Warsaw Pact

A massive concrete barrier, dividing democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin. The wall acted as a symbol of the Cold War and Soviet Union restrictions.

• Berlin Wall

• Cold War

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Curtain

How did the "Bay of Pigs" failure lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Khruschev believed the United States was too weak to oppose Soviet expansion into Cuba

• Kennedy announced a blockade of Cuba following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion

• Castro protested his country's being used as a tool for the Cold War & asked Khrushchev to intervene

• The Bay of Pigs troops were used to build the missile bases