Cuban Missile Crisis - Vocabulary Mini-Quiz

Guerrilla Warfare refers to -----

• Prolonged warfare using quick offensives before retreating

• Conventional warfare according to the Geneva conventions

• Warfare practiced in the Americas into the 19th century

• Warfare that is specialized and precise.

___________ was the leader of the Cuban Revolution.

• Raul Castro

• Che Guevara

• Fidel Castro

• Camilo Cienfuegos

____________ was the successful communist revolution that took place in Latin America in 1959

• Nicaraguan Revolution

• Chilean Revolution

• Cuban Revolution

• Haitian Revolution

The belief that the Untied States should have the authority to intervene in the affairs of the Americas.

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Monroe Doctrine

• The Platt Amendment

Agency that is responsible for much subterfuge in American history.

• DEA

• DHI

• FBI

• CIA

The ill-fated invasion of Cuba by anti-communist Cubans backed by the U.S.

• Bay of Pigs Incident

• The Siege of Havana

• Operation Verano

• Descent Into Santiago

_______________ was the agreement that brought Soviet Missiles into Cuba.

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Mutual and Cooperation and Friendship

• Havana-Moscow Treaty

• Soviet-Cuban Treaty

This incident nearly led to a breaking point between the United States and Soviet Union over missiles placed in Cuba.

• Suez Crisis

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Dalfour Crisis

• Berlin Crisis

Famous president that oversaw the Cuban Missile Crisis and wanted to pass the Civil Rights Act before his death.

• John. F Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

• Lyndon B Johnson

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Soviet premier who took power after the death of Joseph Stalin

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Boris Yeltsin

• Mikael Gorbachev

• Nikita Khrushchev