The Cuban Missile Crisis

When did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?

• October 1960

• November 1961

• October 1962

• November 1963

Which Soviet leader decided to introduce nuclear weapons into Cuba?

• Josef Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Vladimir Lenin

Who was the US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F Kennedy

• Lyndon B Johnson

How did the USA know that the USSR had introduced nuclear weapons into Cuba?

• General Batista confessed to the USA

• A U2 Spy plane took pictures of Missile Silos

• Ernesto Che Guevara threatened the USA with it

• The Cuban Exiles of Bay of Pigs told the USA

What was the special team formed to provide Kennedy with advice on the Cuban Missile Crisis called?

• Ex-Convicts

• Ex-Army

• Ex-Council

• Ex-Comm

"Ex-Comm" stands for the "Executive Committee of the National Security Council".

• True

• False

On the 21st of October 1962, Kennedy's first major steps were to inform Britain about discovery of the missile silos in Cuba and to break the news in a TV address to the nation.

• True

• False

On the 22nd of October, Khrushchev public confessed that there were Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

• True

• False

On the 24th of October, Castro called for a nuclear strike from the USSR...and then Castro immediately decided to CHANGE his mind on that call.

• True

• False

On what grounds did ambassadors Adlai Stevenson and Valerian Zorin have a famous war of words?

• The Organisation of American States

• The League of Nations

• The United Nations

• The International Olympic Committee