Cuban Missile Crisis

What conflict did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur in?

• WW2
• Cold War
• WW1
• Vietnam War

Who is this President?

• President Kennedy

• President Truman

• President Johnson

What devastation does this predict?

• The destructive impact of nuclear missiles launched from Cuba

• The flight distance for travel from Cuba

• The impact of an earthquake centered in Cuba

Why did the US blockade Cuba?

• Cuba betrayed the US by suprise attacking the US
• They sent a bomb to the US and bombed the US
• The US hated Cuba
• The US discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

Who is this leader?

• Soviet/ USSR:

  Nikita Khrushchev

• Cuba:

  Fidel Castro

• USA:

  John F Kennedy

Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

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)

• Cuban Invasion

How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being built in Cuba?

• from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

• from US spy satellites

• from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

• from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

Why didn't Kennedy want to attack Cuba once the missiles were discovered?

• fear of nuclear war

• fear of communism in the US

• fear of putting European allies in danger

• fear of losing re-election