The History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba in order to ___ the island of Cuba.

• Attack

• Defend

• Conquer

• Colonize

The United States called the blockade a quarantine because:

• Quarantine is the correct military term

• Quarantine sounds better than a blockade

• A blockade is a term for war; a quarantine isn’t

• A blockade suggests illness

The Cuban Missile Crisis is when the US reached which DEFCON level?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 5

Which government individuals negotiated the end of the Crisis on October 27?

• Robert Kennedy and Vasili Arkhipov

• Vasili Arhkipov and Anatoly Dobrynin

• Robert Kennedy and Anatoly Dobrynin

• John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev

Which of the following is not part of the agreement between the US and the USSR?

• The U.S will never invade Cuba

• The Soviet Union will remove the missiles from Cuba

• UN will inspect the removal of missiles in Cuba

• The Soviet Union will hold open elections

What were the options presented to John F. Kennedy to end the crisis?

How does the Cuban Missile Crisis show that “cooler heads prevailed"?

Some historians disagree about Khrushchev’s intentions when placing the missiles in Cuba. Do you believe that the missiles were placed there for defensive or offensive purposes?