Cuban Missile Crisis

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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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

The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

• Inchon Invasion

• Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being constructed in Cuba?

• from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

• from US spy satellites

• from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

• the British intercepted the telegram which outlined the nuclear missile project in Cuba

• from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

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.

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 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

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