Unit 9: Concept Checkpoint #6 (Bay of Pigs / Cuban Missile)

Who is the leader of Cuba in the 1960s during the Cold War?

• Fidel Castro

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Dwight Eisenhower

Who is the leader of the Soviet Union in the 1960s during the Cold War?

• Fidel Castro

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

Fidel Castro & Cuba during the 1960s was ...

• Democratic

• Communist

• Socialist

• Monarchy

What was the failed invasion of Cuba by the United States?

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Invasion Chaos

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Tet Offensive

Why was the US concerned with Cuba in the 1960s?

• Cuba was close to the US, allied with the USSR, & communist

• Cuba was allied with Germany & working to reinstate Adolf Hitler

• Cuba was far away from the US but still communist & allies with Italy

• Cuba aided North Korea during the Korean War

What was found in Cuba in 1962?

• Italy's testing site for the atomic bombs

• Soviet Union missiles bases that were ready to launch

• Cuban rebels training to overthrow Castro

• China's troops that were sent to help North Korea

What was President Kennedy's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Do nothing & ignore the missiles

• Airstrike Cuba missile site without warning

• Quarantine Cuba so now Soviet ships could get through & negotiate with Khrushchev

• Give a warning to Soviet Union & Cuba then airstrike if nothing is done

What was the significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Closest US & USSR came to nuclear war

• Cost the US the most amount of money during the Cold War

• Only time the US did not contain communism in the Cold War

• USSR lost the space race after