Cuban Missile Crisis
Test Quiz
1. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a. Mikhail Gorbachev
b. Leonid Brezhnev
c. Nikita Khrushchev
d. Fidel Castro
e. Joseph Stalin
2. In what country did the Soviet Union put nuclear missile sites that could hit any target within the United States?
a. Guatemala
b. Mexico
c. Italy
d. Turkey
e. Cuba
3. Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a. Dwight Eisenhower
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Bill Clinton
d. George Bush
e. Gerald Ford
4. How did the United States discover that nuclear missiles were being installed into Cuba?
a. They decoded a secret message from Fidel Castro
b. US spies in Russia found out
c. Cuban exiles smuggled secret documents into the United States
d. With help from the United Kingdom spy network
e. Pictures from a U-2 spy plane
5. What did the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States want to do when they discovered the missiles?
a. Launch a full invasion and takeover of Cuba
b. Negotiate with the Soviet Union
c. Establish a blockade
d. Go to the United Nations for help
e. None of the above
6. What event prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis caused Fidel Castro to look to the Soviet Union for military help?
a. Vietnam War
b. Building of the Berlin Wall
c. Suez Crisis
d. Bay of Pigs invasion
e. Korean War
7. What actions did the United States first take when they discovered the missiles?
a. They attacked Cuba in full force
b. They formed a blockade against any weapons entering Cuba
c. They asked the United Nations for help
d. They started negotiations with Fidel Castro
e. They tried to pay Cuba to remove the missiles
8. What did the US agree to do in order to get the Soviet Union to remove the missiles?
a. Never to invade Cuba again
b. Remove nuclear missiles from Turkey
c. Remove nuclear missiles from Italy
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
9. What leader was left out of the negotiations?
a. President Kennedy
b. Nikita Khrushchev
c. Fidel Castro
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
10. True or false: Everyone considered the resolution of the negotiations to be a great victory for the United States.
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
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