Kennedy & The Cold War

He won the Election in

• 1956
• 1960
• 1964
• 1962

He became the new ruler in Cuba

• Fulgencio Batista
• Nikita Khrushchev
• Fidel Castro
• Robert Kennedy

Which came first? 

• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Cuban Missile Crisis

Where did the US have nuclear missiles?

•  China
•  Turkey
• Yugoslavia
• Mexico

When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• October, 1962
• November, 1963
• 1947 to 1991
• April, 1961

What began the space race?

• Sputnik
• the Berlin Wall
• the Berlin Blockade
• the Cuban Missile Crisis

President John F. Kennedy responded to reports that the Soviet Union was constructing missile sites in Cuba by

• ordering a naval blockade of Cuba
• asking Congress to declare war on Cuba
• authorizing military strikes on strategic targets in Cuba
• seeking United Nations approval for economic sanctions against Cuba

What was the main foreign policy of the U.S. government during the 1950s and 60s?

• fighting the threat of terrorism

• securing new trade relationships

• prosecuting human rights violations

• containing the spread of communism

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

• keep East Germany from becoming a communist satellite

• protect Berlin from invasion by the Soviet Union

• prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany

• stop communist spies from infiltrating West Berlin

What role did Berlin play in the Cold War during the Kennedy administration?

• It symbolized the division between U.S. and Soviet ideologies.

• It became the focus of a reduction in U.S.–Soviet tensions.

• It hosted a U.S.–Soviet summit meeting intended to unify Germany.

• It served as a place to train U-2 pilots to spy on the Soviet Union.