Cuban Missile Crisis Review -Unresolved conflicts

What period is known for the intense rivalry and threat of nuclear war between the United States and Soviet Union?

• World War II

• The Vietnam War

• The Cold War

• The Korean War

What event in 1961 convinced Cuba to seek help from the U.S.S.R.?

• The Bay of Pigs

• The Korean Armistice

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Berlin Crisis

Who was the Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Khrushchev

What was the date of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• October 10, 1962

• October 14, 1962

• October 16, 1962

• October 28, 1962

What caused the Korean War?

• The North and South Koreans wanted different resources.

• The North Invaded the South

• The USSR convinced the South to attack the North

• The North wanted to be Communist, the south wanted a Democracy.

What was the United States' policy towards communism during the early years of the Cold War?

• Containment
• Extermination
• Isolationsim
• Elimination

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 president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon Johnson

• Harry S. Truman

• Gerald Ford

How did the United States discover that nuclear missiles were being installed into Cuba?

• They decoded a secret message from Fidel Castro

• U.S. spies in Russia found out

• Cubans smuggled secret documents into the U.S.

• Pictures from a U-2 spy plan