Cuban Missile Crisis

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

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• James Gregory

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

• Sergei Fedorov

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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"Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island."

Which 1962 leader said this?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• John F. Kennedy

• Harry Truman

• Wang Chung

• Hideki Tojo

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)

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

• blockade

• containment

• perestroika

• satellites

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

• Arms Race

• Domino Theory

• Glasnost

• Warsaw Pact

What ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The USSR removes missiles and the US leaves Cuba alone.

• The US uses all of their missiles and destroys Cuba

• Cuba forfiets

• JFK got tired of fighting and just made a treaty

What ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The USSR removes missiles and the US leaves Cuba alone.

• The US uses all of their missiles and destroys Cuba

• Cuba forfiets

• JFK got tired of fighting and just made a treaty