The Cuban Missile Crisis

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

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

• No

• Yes

Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Boris Yeltsin

• Nikita Khruschev

• Joseph Stalin

The Soviet missiles in Cuba were being installed _____ miles from the shore of Florida.

• 90
• 100
• 110
• 80

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

Out of the options presented to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he elected to go with which one?

• "quarantine" or blockade Cuba

• airstrike on key bases

• launch a full invasion and overthrow Castro

• use diplomacy to appeal to Castro

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

The ____________ were badly outnumbered during the Bay of Pigs by ___________ troops.

• Islanders, US
• Crew members, Castro's
• Cuba exiles, Castro's
• Invaders, US

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

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

What countries were in the conflict?

• The U.S, Russia, and Cuba
• The U.S, Germany, the Soviet Union
• Cuba, The U.S, and the Soviet Union.
  
• The U.S and Cuba