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WorksheetsSuban Missile Crisis
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 50mins
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)
What U.S. agency was behind the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
FBI
CIA
NSA
Police
Which country became a close friend of the Cuban government after the Bay of Pigs?
Germany
United States
Soviet Union
Canada
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 leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Dwight Eisenhower
Edwardo Obstinado
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
Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy quarantine (blockade) 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.
The public agreement between the US and the Soviet Union was that they would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US would________________?
Take missiles out of Poland
Promise not to invade Cuba
Promised to not attack the Soviet Union
Take missiles out of the Soviet Union
What did the US secretly agree to do in order to get the Soviets to remove their missiles from Cuba?
Pay 53 million dollars
Move their military base to Alaska
Remove the United States's Missiles from Turkey
Supply Cuba with more missiles
What is the "thing" in the box?
naval blockade
quarantine
nuclear war
the Cold War
Fidel Castro
Which of the following statements expresses the message in this political cartoon?
Castro reluctantly agreed to give Khrushchev 54 of his submarines in exchange for the Soviet missiles.
Castro had a terrible toothache and asked Khrushchev if he would pay his dental bill.
In 1968 Khrushchev demanded that Castro remove 22 missiles in Turkey, which were pointed at the Soviet Union.
Khrushchev determined he couldn't trust Castro and made the decision to remove the 100 missiles he had left behind in Cuba.
Castro mockingly told Khrushchev he would rather lose all his teeth than to lose all the missiles pointed at the United States.
This barred testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere (1963):
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Atmospheric Hydrogen Bomb Test Treaty
SALT I
Tsar Bomba Elimination Treaty
What did the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty NOT ban?
Nuclear tests in the atmosphere
Nuclear tests in the ocean
Nuclear tests underground
Nuclear tests in space
Many say that Kennedy's "greatest moment" was his successful _________.
creation of the Peace Corps
victory in the Vietnam War
handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
second term
What was established between the US And the USSR after the Cuban Missile Crisis to make it possible for talk directly during a crisis?
direct telegraph line from DC to Moscow
telephone hotline from DC to Moscow
internet (email) line between DC and Moscow
satellite communications between DC and Moscow
