Kennedy

What conflict did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur in?

• WW2
• Cold War
• WW1
• Vietnam War

Why did the US blockade Cuba?

• Cuba betrayed the US by suprise attacking the US
• They sent a bomb to the US and bombed the US
• The US hated Cuba
• The US discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy blockade around Cuba?

• Khrushchev removed all Soviet missiles from Cuba.

• An American spy plane caught the Soviet Union placing nuclear weapons in Cuba.

• Khrushchev led a conference in Yalta but the US was not invited.

• Castro threatened to launch four missiles at the US if Kennedy refused to take down the US missiles in Turkey.

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)

• Cuban Invasion

Match the following

• Type of missile delivery system

• MAD

• First satellite launched into orbit

• ICBM

• The closest the US has come to nuclear war..so far

• Bay of Pigs

• The only realistic result of nuclear war

• Sputnik

• Failed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro

• Cuban Missile Crisis

What is the name of the country in white on the map?

• United States

• Cuba

• Colombia

• Soviet Union

Why was the "Bay of Pigs" disaster considered the biggest blunder in JFK's short presidency?

• it failed to successfully achieve the objective of assassinating Castro

• it allowed China to gain the island of Taiwan

• the USSR embarrassed the US at the Bay of Pigs

• the US lost an aircraft carrier in the naval battle

How did TV affect the 1960 presidential election?

• Ike's personality on TV enabled him to rise in the polls

• JFK out debated Nixon in the first televised debate

• Nixon was able to show his easygoing manner giving speeches on TV

• the candidates were able to show their homes on TV proving they were just like us

Which of the following was not a result of the Soviets putting nukes in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis)?

• naval blockade of Cuba

• 13 day standoff between the US and the USSR

• JFK takes the world to the edge of WWIII

• the US invades Cuba and removes the nukes