Cuban Missile Crisis Review

This cartoon represents which topic?

• the Space Race

• the Arms Race

• the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• the Earth's environmental problems

Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Felipe Gonzales

• Fidel Castro

• Pancho Villa

Who is the man with the "missile teeth"?

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Raul Rodriguez

• Che Guevara

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)

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

Out of the options presented to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he elected to go with which one?

• "quarantine" or blockade Cuba

• airstrike on key bases

• launch a full invasion and overthrow Castro

• use diplomacy to appeal to Castro

What is the "thing" in the box?

• naval blockade

• quarantine

• nuclear war

• the Cold War

• Fidel Castro

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

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• James Gregory

In what country did the Soviet Union put nuclear missile sites that could hit any target within the United States

• Guatemala

• Mexico

• Italy

• Turkey

• Cuba

Castro formed a _______________ government and took away many citizens' __________________.

• autocratic; money

• democratic; homes

• socialist; freedom

• communist; rights