Cuban Missile Quiz

In which year did the United States become aware of Soviet plans to station missiles in Cuba?

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

What reconnaissance did the United States use to discover the missile sites on the Cuban territory?

• Undercover Operatives

• Spy Planes

• Submarines

• Phone Taps

When Kennedy became aware that the U.S.S.R was about to station missiles on Cuban territory, what did he order the U.S. Navy to do?

• Blockade Cuba

• Invade Cuba

• Make Peace With Cuba

• Sail to Canada

Roughly how close iss Cuba to America?

• 100 miles

• 52 miles

• 3 miles

• 1200 miles

Who was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban missile crisis?

• Lenin

• Stalin

• Khrushchev

• Putin

The U.S. missiles in what country threatened the Soviet Union?

• Egypt

• Israel

• Turkey

• Greece

What event had caused frosty relations between JFK and Castro?

• Bay of Pigs

• Gulf of Tonkin

• Watergate Scandal

• World War One

What did both countries (United States and the Soviet Union) agree to do to solve this conflict?

• Shake Hands on Public Television

• Removal of Missiles from Cuba and Turkey

• Invade Cuba

• Drop Bombs on Each Other

The final agreement was that both countries agreed to dismantle their arms totally, and stay away from each other's continents forever

• True

• False

In 1963, the Soviet Union and the United States signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

• True

• False