Cuban Missile Crisis

In what year did the Cuban Missile Crisis take place?

• 1959

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

Who was the Cuban leader during the crisis?

• Raul Castro

• Che Guevara

• Fidel Castro

• Julio Arca

What was the failed CIA-backed attempt to remove Castro from power in 1959 known as?

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Operation ORTSAC

• Free Cuba Movement

Who was the US president during the crisis?

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F Kennedy

• Lyndon B Johnson

Who was the Soviet leader during the crisis?

• Joseph Stalin

• Anatoly Dobrynin

• Andrei Gromyko

• Nikita Khrushchev

The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted for...

• 1 week

• 2 weeks

• 1 month

• 2 months

Upon discovering Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, Kennedy...

• Ordered air strikes against the missile sites

• Ordered a full-scale invasion of Cuba

• Used diplomacy through the UN

• Set up a naval blockade around the island

True or false: On October 24th Castro urged Khrushchev to launch a nuclear strike against the US

• True

• False

A secret part of the deal to end the crisis included the US removing its missiles from...

• Latvia and Finland

• UK and France

• Germany and Poland

• Italy and Turkey

What happened after the crisis? (select all that are correct)

• Soviet missiles were removed from Cuba

• A new trade agreement was signed between the US and the USSR

• A 'hotline' between the Kremlin and the White House was established

• Castro stepped down as Cuban leader

• The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty came into existence