Cold War- Cuban Missile Crisis

Shutting off of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.

• blockade

• containment

• perestroika

• satellites

The leader of the communist revolution in Cuba during the 1950's, who became an anti-American dictator.

• Fidel Castro

• Lech Walesa

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Ho Chi Minh

An attempt by the Soviet Union in 1962 to place nuclear missiles in Cuba directed toward the United States.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• Detente

A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nuclear and controversial weapons.

• Arms Race

• Domino Theory

• Glasnost

• Warsaw Pact

A massive concrete barrier, dividing democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin. The wall acted as a symbol of the Cold War and Soviet Union restrictions.

• Berlin Wall

• Cold War

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Curtain

Was there any Nuclear missile launching during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• No

• Yes

What year did the Cuban Missile Crisis end?

• 1959
• 1973
• 1962
• 1963

How long did the Cuban Missile Crisis last?

• 10 years

• 2 months

• 2 weeks

• 4 months

During the Cold War, who was the United States' biggest adversary?

• Germany

• North Korea

• England

• Soviet Union

How did the "Bay of Pigs" failure lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Khruschev believed the United States was too weak to oppose Soviet expansion into Cuba

• Kennedy announced a blockade of Cuba following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion