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WorksheetsAmerica, The World, and Crisis
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 16mins
On April 17, 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion began, under what president?
Johnson
Kennedy
Nixon
Eisenhower
What U.S. agency was behind the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
FBI
CIA
NSA
Police
The United States used Cuban exiles for the Bay of Pigs invasion
True
False
The United States wanted to use Cuban exiles to make it look like a Cuban operation not an American
True
False
The Soviet leader at the time of the Bay of Pigs was..
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
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
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
What is a Jewish country in the Middle East established in 1948?
Israel
Palestine
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Who are the Jews?
a group of people who live mostly in the Middle East, tend to speak Arabic, and often follow Islam
a group of people who are descended from the ancient Hebrews and believe in Judaism
an Iranian ethnic group native to a mountainous region of Western Asia known as Kurdistan
a minority group of people in Rwanda and Burundi, targeted by a massive genocide in 1994
Who are the Arabs?
a group of people who live mostly in the Middle East, tend to speak Arabic, and often follow Islam
a group of people who are descended from the ancient Hebrews and believe in Judaism
an Iranian ethnic group native to a mountainous region of Western Asia known as Kurdistan
a minority group of people in Rwanda and Burundi, targeted by a massive genocide in 1994
Out of all of the countries in the world, why did Jews want to settle in Palestine?
They have a religious connection to this land that goes back thousands of years, all of their holy places are there
This area has the most natural resources that they believed would help them build a strong economy
There was no one living here so it was easy to take this land without angering anyone
Which international organization voted to divide Palestine into a Jewish country and an Arab country in 1948?
the Red Cross
the United Nations
the World Bank
the World Health Organization
Egypt opens trade with whom? This makes the U.S. mad.
USSR
French
US
England
Which president refuses to intervene in the Hungarian revolution
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Bush
Nixon
The pro-democracy group won in the Hungarian revolution.
False
True
After the U2 incident, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. became allies.
False
True
