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WorksheetsCuban Missile Crisis
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 28mins
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Gorbachav
Mikhal Gorbachav
Nikita Gorbachav
Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Dwight Eisenhower
Check all that apply:
Which of the following was an option that Kennedy considered?
Air Strike
Do Nothing
Diplomacy/Negotiate
Remove missile sites in the Soviet Union
True or false: Kennedy's decision to remove US missiles in Turkey was made public
True
False
Why did the USSR want to put missiles in 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
What ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The USSR removes missiles and the US leaves Cuba alone.
The US uses all of their missiles and destroys Cuba
Cuba forfiets
JFK got tired of fighting and just made a treaty
How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being built in Cuba?
from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers
from US spy satellites
from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions
from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane
What left-wing revolutionary overthrew Cuban dictator Batista?
Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Hugo Chavez
Augusto Pinochet
What would have happened if the U.S. had invaded Cuba?
Short-range rockets armed with nuclear devices would have been used
The Cuban economy would have been devastated
The U.S. would have faced international condemnation
The Cuban people would have revolted against the U.S.
What did Kennedy pledge to the Soviet Union?
To end the Cold War
Not to invade Cuba
To reduce taxes
To increase military spending
What did Kennedy do to prevent the nuclear missiles from reaching Cuba?
Negotiated a trade agreement with Cuba
Sent in troops to overthrow the Cuban government
Deployed a naval fleet to the Caribbean
set up a blockade in order give time to find a peaceful solution
What was a consequence of the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviet Union decided to place nuclear missiles in Cuba
The Soviet Union invaded Great Britain
The Berlin Wall was built
The Vietnam War started
Was the Bay of Pigs successful for the U.S.?
No
Yes
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
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
All of the above
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
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
Mark the location where the Cuban Missile Crisis took place
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 blockade
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
