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Cuban Missile Crisis

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did JFK respond to the news that the Soviets had placed nuclear weapon installations in Cuba?

a)

Asking the United Nations to approve economic sanctions for Cuba

b)

Blockading ships from entering or exiting Cuba

c)

Closing the US border

d)

Asking Congress to declare war on Cuba

2.

Why did the USSR want to put missiles on Cuba?

a)

To have more missiles because they couldn't match the nuclear power of the US

b)

To counter the Warsaw Pact countries that were overthrowing communism

c)

To counter the US missiles in Italy and Turkey

d)

To counter the power of NATO

3.

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

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Dwight Eisenhower

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Robert Kennedy

e)

James Gregory

4.

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

a)

Nikita Khrushchev

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Mikhal Gorbachav

d)

Fidel Castro

e)

Sergei Fedorov

5.

Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Nikita Khrushchev

c)

Fidel Castro

d)

Dwight Eisenhower

e)

Edwardo Obstinado

6.

Kennedy approved an invasion plan called

a)

Destroy Castro

b)

Operation Cuba's Biggest Regret

c)

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

d)

The U-2Coastal Operation

e)

The Soviet Nuclear Crisis

7.

The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

a)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

d)

Inchon Invasion

e)

Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

8.

How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being constructed in Cuba?

a)

from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

b)

from US spy satellites

c)

from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

d)

the British intercepted the telegram which outlined the nuclear missile project in Cuba

e)

from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

9.

The US secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles near the USSR in what two countries?

a)

Latvia & Estonia

b)

Italy and Turkey

c)

Rome & Greece

d)

Cuba and Finland

e)

Ukraine & Czechoslovakia

10.

What is the "thing" in the box?

a)

naval blockade

b)

quarantine

c)

nuclear war

d)

the Cold War

e)

Fidel Castro

11.

Which Soviet action led to the threat illustrated on this map?

a)

The placement of nuclear weapons installations in Cuba

b)

Blockading foreign supply ships from entering the Caribbean

c)

The signing of an arms limitations treaty

d)

Closing the border between East and West Berlin

12.

Was the Bay of Pigs successful for the U.S.?

a)

No

b)

Yes

13.

Mark the location where the Cuban Missile Crisis took place