Cuban Missile Crisis

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

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Nikita Gorbachav

• Mikhal Gorbachav

• Nikita Gorbachav

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

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• John F. Kennedy

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Fidel Castro

• Dwight Eisenhower

What agreement did they publicly come to to end the crisis??

• USSR removes missiles, US doesn't invade Cuba
• The US uses all of their missiles and destroys Cuba
• Cuba joins the US side
• JFK gets tired of fighting and just makes a treaty

How many days did the Cuban missile crisis last?

• 13
• 14
• 15
• still going on

Check all that apply:

Which of the following was an option that Kennedy considered?

• Air Strike

• Do Nothing

• Diplomacy/Negotiate

• Remove missile sites in the Soviet Union

True or false: Kennedy's decision to remove US missiles in Turkey was made public

• True

• False

Why did the USSR want to put missiles in 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

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