20-1 Video Assignment 2

What event marked the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The signing of the Warsaw Pact

• The Berlin Blockade

• The construction of the Berlin Wall

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Who was the Soviet Premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Which US President was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Lyndon B. Johnson

What was the US's initial response to the discovery of missiles in Cuba?

• Immediate nuclear retaliation

• A naval blockade of Cuba

• A diplomatic protest to the United Nations

• A full-scale invasion of Cuba

What prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo from a Soviet submarine?

• A decision by Vasili Arkhipov

• Intervention by US forces

• Technical malfunction

• An order from Nikita Khrushchev

Who met secretly to negotiate the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Lyndon B. Johnson and Leonid Brezhnev

• Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko

• Robert Kennedy and Anatoly Dobrynin

• John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev

What did the US agree to in order to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Join the Warsaw Pact

• Surrender to the USSR

• Remove missiles from Turkey and Italy

• Remove missiles from Cuba only

What was the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• A permanent military base was established in Cuba by the USSR

• The USSR removed its missiles from Cuba

• Cuba was divided into East and West

• The US invaded Cuba

What lesson was learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The need for a stronger United Nations

• The importance of military superiority

• The effectiveness of espionage

• The fragility of human politics in the nuclear age

What was DEFCON 2 one step away from?

• Nuclear war

• Total surrender

• Absolute dictatorship

• Naval blockade