John F. Kennedy & the Cold War

Who won the 1960 presidential election?

• Richard Nixon
• John F. Kennedy 
• Gerald Ford 
• Jimmy Carter 

President Eisenhower's vice president who ran against Kennedy in the 1960 election

• Richard Nixon
• John F. Kennedy 
• Lyndon Johnson
• Gerald Ford 

John F. Kennedy won the 1960 election because he looked good on T.V. and supported civil rights 

• True 
• False 

What was the name of the President's advisors? 

• Black Panthers 
• The best and the Brightest 
• The Camelot Gang 
• Peace Corp

Who did President Kennedy make Attorney General 

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Robert Kennedy 
• Lee Harvey Oswald 
• Fidel Castro

Communist leader of Cuba who openly supported the Soviet Union 

• Robert Kennedy 
• Nikita Khrushchev 
• Fidel Castro
• Yuri Gagarin 

The 1960 CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro and the Cuban government. It failed miserably. 

• U-2 Incident 
• Bay of Pigs 
• Cuban Missile Crisis 
• Berlin Wall

The situation when Cuba had nuclear missiles ready to launch and the U.S. blockaded Cuba threatening nuclear war 

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Berlin Crisis 
• Bay of Pigs 
• Guatemalan War 

Nikita Khrushchev had this built to keep Eastern Germans from fleeing to the democratic West Germany 

• Iron Curtain 
• Bay of Pigs 
• Berlin Wall
• Great Wall of China 

The first American to go to space 

• Alan Shepard 
• Yuri Gagarin 
• Neil Armstrong 
• Buzz Aldrin