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WorksheetsCuban Missile Crisis
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 15mins
Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
James Gregory
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Mikhal Gorbachav
Fidel Castro
Sergei Fedorov
Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Dwight Eisenhower
Edwardo Obstinado
Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy block around Cuba?
Khrushchev removed all Soviet missiles from Cuba.
An American spy plane caught the Soviet Union placing nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba and launches his new line of army fatigues with matching beards.
Khrushchev led a conference in Yalta but the US was not invited.
Castro threatened to launch four missiles at the US if Kennedy refused to take down the US missiles in Turkey.
"Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island."
Which 1962 leader said this?
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
Wang Chung
Hideki Tojo
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)
Shutting off of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.
blockade
containment
perestroika
satellites
A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nuclear and controversial weapons.
Arms Race
Domino Theory
Glasnost
Warsaw Pact
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
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
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
