Cuban Missile Crisis

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

Kennedy approved an invasion plan called

• Destroy Castro

• Operation Adios

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Soviet Nuclear Crisis

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

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

How many days did the Cuban missile crisis last?

• 13
• 14
• 15
• still going on

What U.S. agency was behind the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

• FBI

• CIA

• NSA

• UN

When and how did Fidel Castro come to power in Cuba?

• In a free election

• In a popular armed insurgency in 1959 against the US-backed Batista regime

• He inherited power from his father

• Installed by the Soviet Union

What is a significant reason why the Soviets put missiles in Cuba?

• They didn't want to, but Castro asked them to

• Because they intended to attack Florida

• There weren't any missiles in Cuba

• The Soviets disliked the presence of nuclear weapons that were targeted at them from sites in Western Europe and Turkey