United States
Russia
Cuba
Important People
Conflict
100
In what ways was the United States considering to attack Cuba?
Air, sea, or military blockade
100
Whose authorization did the Soviet Union need to build missiles in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
100
Who did Cuba side with after the Bay of the Pigs?
Russia
100
Who was the president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F Kennedy
100
When did the CIA, encourage, fund and transported an attempt to invade Cuba?
April 1961
200
Was the United States blockade successful?
No
200
What date was President John F Kennedy shown photographs of Soviet missile installation in Cuba?
Oct 16, 1962
200
To what hemisphere was the Cuban Missile Crisis directed to?
Western Hemisphere
200
Who was the leader of Cuba during this time.
Fidel Castro
200
Was the invasion successful?
No it failed miserably
300
What did the United States announce they would not permit?
Offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba
300
What date did President John F Kennedy address the nation about the Soviet missile installations?
October 22, 1962
300
What is the Bay of the Pigs?
When the CIA encouraged, funded, transported the invasion of Cuba.
300
Who was the leader of Russia during the Cuban missile crisis.
Nikita Kruchev
300
What did Castro ask for and Russia publicly promised?
Weapons to defend Cuba against America
400
What was the blockade called?
Quarantine
400
What country did President John F Kennedy impose a Naval quarantine on to prevent Soviet shipments of offensive military weapons?
Cuba
400
Why was Cuba invaded?
To provoke popularity for an uprising against Fidel Castro,
400
Who was the leader of Britain during the Cuban missile Crisis.
Harold Macmillan
400
What was any missile launched by Cuba considered?
A nuclear attack by the Soviet Union?
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