WorksheetsCuban Missile Crisis Part 2
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 19mins
Which U.S. action is Krushchev challenging in this excerpt?
Preventing Soviet advisors from meeting with revolutionaries in South America
Establishing a naval blockade to stop the shipment of missiles to Cuba
Enforcing a ban on military aid to communist forces in North Vietnam
Conducting air shipments of vital supplies to East Berlin
President John F. Kennedy responded to reports that the Soviet Union was constructing missile sites in Cuba by-
ordering a naval blockade of Cuba
asking Congress to declare war on Cuba
authorizing military strikes on strategic sanctions against Cuba
seeking United Nations approval for economic sanctions against Cuba
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
Who was the President of The United States during the Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
George Washington
Bill Clinton
Robert F. Kennedy
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Vladimir Putin
Vladmir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Why did the Soviet Union put missiles in Cuba?
To have more missiles because they couldn't match the nuclear power of the US
To counter the US missiles in Australia and South Korea
To counter the US missiles in Italy and Turkey
To have control over Texas
What did Khrushchev want when sending the missiles to Cuba?
To increase the Soviet Union's nuclear capability
he believed the missiles were dangerous in Russia
Aid the US
To increase the US nuclear capability
What was the failed attempt by the United States to invade Cuba and remove Castro from power?
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missle Crisis
Which happened last?
Kennedy and Khrushchev reached an agreement
Nuclear missile sites were built in Turkey
Nuclear missile sites were built in Cuba
We went into nuclear war with France
What happened on October 16, 1962?
The Soviet Union bombed the United States
The Soviet Union learned that the United States had built missile sites in Turkey and Italy
The United States bombed the Soviet Union
The United States learned that the Soviet Union was building missile sites in Cuba
What was the Name of the American Spy Plane that Captured Photos of the Soviets planting nuclear missiles?
U-2 Spy Plane
X-Wing
RF-61 Reporter
VTOL Quinjet
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 leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Mikhal Gorbachav
Fidel Castro
Sergei Fedorov
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
Was the Bay of Pigs successful for the U.S.?
No
Yes
Mark the location where the Cuban Missile Crisis took place
Kennedy approved an invasion plan called
Destroy Castro
Operation Cuba's Biggest Regret
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
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)
Cuban Invasion
As a part of the agreement that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. agreed to ____.
be friends with the Soviet Union
remove their missiles from Turkey
allow USSR to keep missiles in Cuba
not complain about the missiles anymore
What event marked the closest the world came to nuclear war during the Cold War?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Berlin Blockade
The Korean War
What did President Kennedy call the naval blockade of Cuba?
An act of war
A quarantine
A peacekeeping operation
A strategic maneuver
What was the U.S. military's defense readiness level set to during the crisis?
DEFCON 2
DEFCON 1
DEFCON 3
DEFCON 5
