Cuban Missile Crisis Check for Understanding

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous confrontation between

• Cuba and the Soviet Union

• The United States and the Soviet Union

• Cuba and the United States

During the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the United States tried and failed to overthrow

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

In 1962 an American U-2 spy plan found

• Soviet ballistic nuclear missiles being built in Cuba

• missile sites in Turkey and Italy

• Soviet ships in Cuban waters

• Cuban exiles rebelling against Castro.

In response to the discovery of ballistic nuclear missiles in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy

• ordered an airstrike to destroy the missiles

• ordered the invasion of Cuba

• called Nikita Khrushchev in attempts of diplomacy

• ordered a naval "quarantine of Cuba"

Khruschev responded to the quarantine by

• calling it an act of aggression

• claiming Soviet ships would keep coming

• turned some ships around

• All of these

Khruschev agreed to remove the Soviet missiles from Cuba if

• the United States removed missiles from Turkey and promised not to invade Cuba

• the United States dismantled its nuclear program

• Kennedy stepped down as President

• Americans left West Berlin

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis impact Kennedy's presidency?

• It strengthened his image in America and around the world

• It weakened his imagine in America and around the world

After the Cuban Missile Crisis

• the United States and the Soviet Union established a direct telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin

• they reconsidered the nuclear arms race and began to discuss nuclear test bans

• Cuba remained a Communist nation.

• All of These