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US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F. Kennedy
Approximate number of miles Cuba is located from Florida?
90 to 100 miles
The agreement Khrushchev required: the US must promise not to do this?
Not to invade Cuba
The word JFK used to avoid calling the blockade an act of war?
quarantine
The month and year the crisis began?
October 1962
Soviet Premier who ordered missiles sent to Cuba?
Nikita Khrushchev
Country where the US had Jupiter missiles aimed at the USSR?
Turkey
The piece of technology installed to allow direct, instant communication between leaders?
The hotline
The international body where Stevenson presented the photos?
united nations
The total number of days the crisis lasted?
13 days
Leader of Cuba who welcomed Soviet missiles?
Fidel Castro
Major capital city that was only 5 minutes away from being hit by a missile?
Washington, D.C
The primary lesson learned by both sides after the 13-day crisis?
danger of nuclear war
The "deal" offered to Soviets that was not made public until years later?
removing U.S. missiles from Turkey
Date a U-2 spy plane was shot down over Cuba?
October 28, 1962
JFK’s brother and Attorney General who negotiated the secret deal?
Robert F. Kennedy
Body of water where U.S. ships formed a blockade around Cuba?
Caribbean Sea
What Robert Kennedy told Dobrynin would happen if the secret deal was revealed?
Deal is off
The term for the failed 1961 invasion that caused Castro to seek Soviet help?
Bay of Pigs
The year the "Hotline" was established between the White House and moscow?
1963
US UN Ambassador who famously presented aerial photos of the missiles?
Adlai Stevenson
European city that Khrushchev hoped to leverage using the Cuba situation?
Berlin
What happened to the Soviet missiles in Cuba?
they were dismantled and removed
Type of U.S. aircraft used to gather aerial photos of the sites?
u-2 spy plane
The year of the Bay of Pigs, which spurred the Soviet missile placement?
1961