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Led a revolution in Cuba, eventually naming himself president for life.

• Robert Kennedy

• Fidel Castro

• John F Kennedy

• Joseph Stalin

To prevent the US from invading, the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba. This led to the:

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Revolution

• American Revolution

Plan by the United States to overthrow the Castro/Cuban government using Cuban exiles.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Cuban Revolution

• Bay of Pigs

• Embargo

President John F. Kennedy’s most significant foreign policy failure involved the:

• Invasion as the Bay of Pigs in Cuba

• Development of the Peace Corps

• Signing of a nuclear test-ban treaty

• Sending of troops to Berlin

What was one outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?

• Cuba became a communist nation

• The United States seized control of Cuba

• The Soviet Union withdrew its nuclear missiles from Cuba

• Fidel Castro met with President John F. Kennedy

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Knowing he needed a strong ally, Fidel Castro the Soviet Union to secretly place nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the US. When US spy planes spotted the missiles in October 1962, POTUS Kennedy authorized a naval blockade of Cuba. The world held its breath for 13 days as the superpowers were at the brink of nuclear war.
• Soviet Leader after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.
• US diplomat, George Kennan, who was stationed in the Soviet Union after WWII, observed Soviet behavior and the fact that Eastern Europe was firmly in Soviet control. Therefore, Kennan recommended a policy to limit Soviet attempts to expand into Western Europe.
• stated that the U.S. would not hesitate to intervene and aid nations overseas to resist communism. It featured a financial plan to build up Europe and prevent the possible spread of communism in the process.
• innovation that made it possible for the southern part of the United States to grow economically during the last half of the 20th century