Cold War JFK, Cuban Missile Crisis

Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• James Gregory

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

• Sergei Fedorov

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Edwardo Obstinado

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Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy block around Cuba?

• Khrushchev removed all Soviet missiles from Cuba.

• An American spy plane caught the Soviet Union placing nuclear weapons in Cuba.

• Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba and launches his new line of army fatigues with matching beards.

• Khrushchev led a conference in Yalta but the US was not invited.

• Castro threatened to launch four missiles at the US if Kennedy refused to take down the US missiles in Turkey.

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What conflict did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur in?

• WW2
• Cold War
• WW1
• Vietnam War

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The  Cuban missiles were being installed _____ miles from the shore of Florida.

• 90
• 100
• 110
• 80

What was the purpose of the US blockade of Cuba?

• Prevent missiles and military equipment from going in
• Prevent missiles and military equipment from going out
• Torture the Cubans into submission
• Torture the Cubans so that they will fight the Russians

Which of the following was a failed invasion of Cuban exiles in 1961 that made the Kennedy administration look incompetent?

• D-Day

• the Bay of Pigs

• the Cuban Missile Crisis

• the Gulf of Tonkin incident

What policy did the Kennedy administration take that allowed more military options in the event of an international crisis?

• flexible response

• the building of the Berlin Wall

• brinkmanship

• detente

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

• to keep people inside West Berlin

• to keep people in East Berlin from leaving to go to the West

• to keep people from West Berlin from leaving to go the East

• to keep United Nations troops from firing on troops from East Germany