John F. Kennedy

Match

Match the following

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• John F. Kennedy

• Dwight Eisenhower

President during the Stock Market Crash of 1929 - believed in rugged individualism

Implemented the New Deal to help w/Great Depression - President during WW2

President at end of WW2 - known for making orders to drop atomic bombs in Japan

Represented the youth - won w/help of black vote - NASA

President at start of Cold War - obtained truce in Korean War - Interstate Highway System

• President during the Stock Market Crash of 1929 - believed in rugged individualism

• Implemented the New Deal to help w/Great Depression - President during WW2

• President at end of WW2 - known for making orders to drop atomic bombs in Japan

• Represented the youth - won w/help of black vote - NASA

• President at start of Cold War - obtained truce in Korean War - Interstate Highway System

Multiple Choice

President John F. Kennedy responded to reports that the Soviet Union was constructing missile sites in Cuba by -

• ordering a naval blockade of Cuba

• asking Congress to declare war on Cuba

• authorizing military strikes on strategic targets in Cuba

• seeking United Nations approval for economic sanctions against Cuba

Multiple Choice

You, Mr. President, are not declaring a quarantine, but rather are setting forth an ultimatum and threatening that if we do not give in to your demands you will use force. - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushev, letter to President JFK on October 24, 1962

Which U.S. action is Khrushchev challenging in this exerpt?

• Preventing Soviet advisors from meeting with revolutionaries in South America

• Establishing a naval blockade to stop the shipment of missiles in Cuba

• Enforcing a ban on military aid to communist forces in North Vietnam

• Conducting air shipments of vital supplies to East Berlin