Vietnam & Cuban Missile Crisis

What conflict did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur in?

• WW2
• Cold War
• WW1
• Vietnam War

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

• Sergei Fedorov

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Edwardo Obstinado

Kennedy approved an invasion plan called

• Destroy Castro

• Operation Cuba's Biggest Regret

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The U-2Coastal Operation

• The Soviet Nuclear Crisis

The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

• Inchon Invasion

• Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

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 did Kennedy's "Quarantine" of Cuba actually do?

• ally

• shun

• blockade

• attack

What was the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The ambassadors from both countries came to an agreement to remove missiles from the countries each were concerned about

• The President and Soviet Premier decided that they would both agree to disagree without fighting

• Kennedy lifted the blockade but Cuba still had missiles on it

• Khrushchev decided to remove missiles from Cuba to get the blockade lifted without talking to the US first, as an act of good faith

Hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action was known as ______.

• Marshall Plan
• Iron Curtain
• Cold War
• Brinkmanship

Who was the leader of the communist government in North Vietnam?

•  Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Le Duan 
• Ngo Dinh Diem