Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

7th - 9th Grade

15 Qs

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

Assessment

Quiz

History

7th - 9th Grade

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Created by

Alan Broadhurst

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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This cartoon represents which topic?

the Space Race

the Arms Race

the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

the Earth's environmental problems

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Nikita Khrushchev

Felipe Gonzales

Fidel Castro

Pancho Villa

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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Who is the man with the "missile teeth"?

Nikita Khrushchev

Fidel Castro

Raul Rodriguez

Che Guevara

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Cuban Missile Crisis

Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

Inchon Invasion

Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Nikita Khrushchev

Joseph Stalin

Mikhal Gorbachav

Fidel Castro

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

The agreement between the US and the Soviet Union was that they would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US would________________?

Take missiles out of Poland

Promise not to invade Cuba

Promised to not attack the Soviet Union

Take missiles out of the Soviet Union

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