Cuba Missile/Kennedy Quiz

What is one country other than Cuba that was the blockade zone during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Spain

• Soviet Union

• Jamaica

• Chile

What country did the United States agree to remove missiles from in a secret agreement to end the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Turkey

• Sweden

• Venezuela

• Columbia

How did the United States discover that nuclear missiles were being installed into Cuba?

• Pictures from a spy plane

• American spies working in Cuba

• Russian traitors who hated Castro sent an email to President Kennedy

• Russia held a press conference and told the world

What was the first thing President Kennedy's military advisors wanted to when they found out about missiles in Cuba?

• Full military invasion of Cuba

• Nuclear strike on the Soviet Union

• Put missiles in Poland

• Offer to give up Florida to Russia in exchange for not launching the missiles

What are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are the only 2 people to be...

• executed for spying during the Cold War

• Caught passing secrets to the Russians

• Given Russian citizenship after living in the United States

• Killed by the radiation from nuclear bomb tests

What political party did Julius Rosenberg belong to?

• Republican

• Libertarian

• Democratic

• Communist

The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to over throw the government of what country?

• Cuba

• Columbia

• Haiti

• United States

What did President Kennedy want to accomplish by the end of the 1960s?

• Put a man on the moon

• Explore the depths of the ocean

• Cure cancer

• Expand the American Empire

In what city was President Kennedy assassinated?

• Dallas

• Paris

• Washington D.C.

• Memphis

What type of spy plane was used in the 1960s to take photos of other countries?

• U-2

• B-1

• F-14

• F-19