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WorksheetsCuban Missile Crisis
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 14mins
How did JFK respond to the news that the Soviets had placed nuclear weapon installations in Cuba?
Asking the United Nations to approve economic sanctions for Cuba
Blockading ships from entering or exiting Cuba
Closing the US border
Asking Congress to declare war on Cuba
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
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
Kennedy approved an invasion plan called
Destroy Castro
Operation Cuba's Biggest Regret
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The U-2Coastal Operation
The Soviet Nuclear Crisis
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
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 is the "thing" in the box?
naval blockade
quarantine
nuclear war
the Cold War
Fidel Castro
Which Soviet action led to the threat illustrated on this map?
The placement of nuclear weapons installations in Cuba
Blockading foreign supply ships from entering the Caribbean
The signing of an arms limitations treaty
Closing the border between East and West Berlin
Was the Bay of Pigs successful for the U.S.?
No
Yes
Mark the location where the Cuban Missile Crisis took place
