Cuba 2017

What is an embargo? 

• A tax on imports
• A limit on the number of goods that can be imported into a country. 
• When one country stops trading with another country in order to put pressure on their government. 
• When the government tells businesses what and how much to produce. 

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Who was the leader of the Soviet Union at the time?

• Joseph Stalin 
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Nikita Khrushchev

Who was the U.S. president at the time?

• Harry Truman
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Teddy Roosevelt
• George Washington

Who was Cuban leader at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Fidel Castro

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Raul Castro

What agreement did they publicly come to to end the 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

What type of government does Cuba have?

• communist
• democratic
• parliamentary
• federation

Who supported communist Cuba?

• United States
• Europe
• Soviet Union
• Canada

Relations between the United States and Cuba have changed recently.

• true
• false

Cuba has a dictatorship government and a _______ economy.

• mixed
• command
• market
• free

Who was Cuba's greatest ally who provided supplies from the 1960s to the 1990s?

• United States
• Venezuela
• Soviet Union
• Mexico