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WorksheetsCuban Missile Crisis
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
This cartoon represents which topic?
the Space Race
the Arms Race
the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
the Earth's environmental problems
Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Felipe Gonzales
Fidel Castro
Pancho Villa
Who is the man with the "missile teeth"?
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Raul Rodriguez
Che Guevara
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)
Inchon Invasion
Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)
How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being constructed in Cuba?
from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers
from US spy satellites
from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions
the British intercepted the telegram which outlined the nuclear missile project in Cuba
from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Mikhal Gorbachav
Fidel Castro
The agreement between the US and the Soviet Union was that they would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US would________________?
Take missiles out of Poland
Promise not to invade Cuba
Promised to not attack the Soviet Union
Take missiles out of the Soviet Union
Out of the options presented to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he elected to go with which one?
"quarantine" or blockade Cuba
airstrike on key bases
launch a full invasion and overthrow Castro
use diplomacy to appeal to Castro
Many say that POTUS Kennedy's "greatest moment" was his successful _________.
creation of the Peace Corps
victory in the Vietnam War
handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
second term
Who is the man on the right?
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Vasili Arkhipov
John F. Kennedy
Yuri Gagarin
WHO is the "dentist" (holing the pliers)?
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Yuri Gagarin
Vasili Arkhipov
This barred testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere (1963):
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Atmospheric Hydrogen Bomb Test Treaty
SALT I
Tsar Bomba Elimination Treaty
The US secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles near the USSR in what two countries?
Latvia & Estonia
Italy and Turkey
Rome & Greece
Cuba and Finland
Ukraine & Czechoslovakia
What was established between the US And the USSR after the Cuban Missile Crisis to make it possible for talk directly during a crisis?
direct telegraph line from DC to Moscow
telephone hotline from DC to Moscow
internet (email) line between DC and Moscow
satellite communications between DC and Moscow
What is the "thing" in the box?
naval blockade
quarantine
nuclear war
the Cold War
Fidel Castro
