Kennedy Administration

How did JFK respond to the news that the Soviets had placed nuclear weapon installations in Cuba?

• Asking the United Nations to approve economic sanctions for Cuba

• Blockading ships from entering or exiting Cuba

• Closing the US border

• Asking Congress to declare war on Cuba

Why did the USSR want to put missiles on Cuba?

• To have more missiles because they couldn't match the nuclear power of the US

• To counter the Warsaw Pact countries that were overthrowing communism

• To counter the US missiles in Italy and Turkey

• To counter the power of NATO

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)

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

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Fidel Castro

The agreement between the US and the Soviet Union was that they would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US would________________?

• Take missiles out of Poland

• Promise not to invade Cuba

• Promised to not attack the Soviet Union

• Take missiles out of the Soviet Union

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

Many say that POTUS Kennedy's "greatest moment" was his successful _________.

• creation of the Peace Corps

• victory in the Vietnam War

• handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• second term