cuban missile crisis quiz

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

• Leon Trotsky

• Vladmir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

Who was the leader of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

• Harry S. Truman

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

Why didn't Kennedy want to attack Cuba once the missiles were discovered?

• fear of war

• fear of communism in the US

• fear of putting European allies in danger

• fear of losing re-election

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

What countries were in the conflict?

• The U.S, Russia, and Cuba
• The U.S, Germany, the Soviet Union
• Cuba, The U.S, and the Soviet Union.
  
• The U.S and Cuba

What ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The USSR removes missiles and the US leaves Cuba alone.

• The US uses all of their missiles and destroys Cuba

• Cuba forfiets

• JFK got tired of fighting and just made a treaty

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being built in Cuba?

• from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

• from US spy satellites

• from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

• from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane