US Semester Review Part 1

What agreement did they publicly come to to end the Cuban Missile Crisis??

• USSR removes missiles, US doesn't invade Cuba
• The US uses all of their missiles and destroys Cuba
• Cuba joins the US side
• JFK gets tired of fighting and just makes a treaty

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

How many days did the Cuban missile crisis last?

• 13
• 14
• 15
• still going on

What U.S. agency was behind the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

• FBI

• CIA

• NSA

• UN

When and how did Fidel Castro come to power in Cuba?

• In a free election

• In a popular armed insurgency in 1959 against the US-backed Batista regime

• He inherited power from his father

• Installed by the Soviet Union

What is a significant reason why the Soviets put missiles in Cuba?

• They didn't want to, but Castro asked them to

• Because they intended to attack Florida

• There weren't any missiles in Cuba

• The Soviets disliked the presence of nuclear weapons that were targeted at them from sites in Western Europe and Turkey

What is the type of sensational reporting where writers exaggerated or even invented stories?

• muckraking

• yellow journalism

• journalism

• reporting

Economic motives for imperialism include _________.

• a desire to spread Christianity
• a need for military bases around the world
• a need for raw materials to be used in factories
• a desire to gain glory

Why was the Spanish-American War fought?

• The US wanted to help Cuba gain independence from Spain so that the US could have access to Cuba's natural resources
• The US blamed to sinking of the USS Maine on Spain
• The Spanish Ambassador wrote a letter criticizing the president
• All of these

What was the event that ignited the Spanish-American War?

• Explosion of the USS Arizona
• Sinking of the USS Maine
• Sinking of the Lusitania
• Russia