1960's Review

This was the time period where countries were building up their nuclear weapons supply out of fear

• Cold War
• World War I
• Heat Wave
• Great Depression

The leader of Cuba is_____________.

• Fidel Castro
• John F. Kennedy
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Raul Castro

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

• Take missiles out of Poland
• Promised not to attack Cuba
• Promised to not attack the Soviet Union
• Take missiles out of the Soviet Union

Who sided with Castro during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Raul Castro
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy
• Nikita Khrushchev

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

• 90
• 100
• 110
• 80

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

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

Kennedy approved an invasion plan called

• Destroy Castro

• Operation Cuba's Biggest Regret

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The U-2Coastal Operation

• The Soviet Nuclear Crisis

Which of the following statements is true about the Bay of Pigs?

• Castro was alert and prepared for a rebel attack because the first rebel soldiers had missed their target.

• Soviet ships carrying medical supplies and food were refused entrance to the Bay of Pigs and had to turn back.

• Castro made an alliance with Gorbachev, who placed missiles in Cuba which were directed at the US.

• A US spy plane observed the Cubans placing Soviet submarines in the Bay of Pigs, which prompted the US to attack Cuba.

• The Bay of Pigs is a small farming community that was being used to disguise the Soviet missiles being set up on the coast of Cuba.

Which of the following statements expresses the message in this political cartoon?

• Castro reluctantly agreed to give Khrushchev 54 of his submarines in exchange for the Soviet missiles.

• Castro had a terrible toothache and asked Khrushchev if he would pay his dental bill.

• In 1968 Khrushchev demanded that Castro remove 22 missiles in Turkey, which were pointed at the Soviet Union.

• Khrushchev determined he couldn't trust Castro and made the decision to remove the 100 missiles he had left behind in Cuba.

• Castro mockingly told Khrushchev he would rather lose all his teeth than to lose all the missiles pointed at the United States.

"Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island."

Which 1962 leader said this?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• John F. Kennedy

• Harry Truman

• Wang Chung

• Hideki Tojo