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The Cuban Missile Crisis Quiz

Authored by Sean Bonacor

Social Studies

12th Grade

The Cuban Missile Crisis Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What event marked the closest the world came to nuclear war during the Cold War?

The Korean War

The Berlin Blockade

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Cuban Missile Crisis

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Lyndon B. Johnson

John F. Kennedy

Richard Nixon

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which country did the U.S. try to overthrow before the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Korea

Cuba

Vietnam

Iran

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the Bay of Pigs?

A nuclear test site

An unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Cuba's government

A U.S. missile base

A Soviet spy operation

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the Soviet Premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Leonid Brezhnev

Joseph Stalin

Mikhail Gorbachev

Nikita Khrushchev

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the U.S. do in response to discovering missiles in Cuba?

Set up a naval blockade

Conducted an airstrike

Did nothing

Launched a full-scale invasion

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the U.S. naval blockade of Cuba officially called?

An act of war

A quarantine

A maneuver

A siege

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