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- 1. Multiple Choice
Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
James Gregory
- 2. Multiple Choice
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Mikhal Gorbachav
Fidel Castro
Sergei Fedorov
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who was the Cuban Dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Dwight Eisenhower
Edwardo Obstinado
- 4. Multiple Choice
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
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements is true about the Bay of Pigs?
Castro was alert and prepared for a rebel attack because the first rebel soldiers had missed their target.
Soviet ships carrying medical supplies and food were refused entrance to the Bay of Pigs and had to turn back.
Castro made an alliance with Gorbachev, who placed missiles in Cuba which were directed at the US.
A US spy plane observed the Cubans placing Soviet submarines in the Bay of Pigs, which prompted the US to attack Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs is a small farming community that was being used to disguise the Soviet missiles being set up on the coast of Cuba.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy block 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.
- 7. Multiple Choice
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.
- 8. Multiple Choice
"Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island."
Which 1962 leader said this?
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
Wang Chung
Hideki Tojo
- 9. Multiple Choice
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)
- 10. Multiple Choice
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
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