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Who was the president of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F Kennedy
100
What action did the US first take when they discovered that there were missiles in Cuba?
Naval blockade
100
Where did the USA discover there were missiles in 1962?
Cuba
100
What is the name that the US used when referring to the Naval blockade of Cuba?
quarantine
100
What did the joint chiefs of staff encourage Kennedy to do in response to the US finding the missiles in Cuba?
Full invasion
200
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Khruschev
200
What took place in Cuba that made Castro look to the USSR for help?
Bay of Pigs
200
What country placed missiles in Cuba in 1962?
Soviet Union
200
What did Castro do to Cuba's oil and businesses after he took over?
nationalized it
200
How did Khrushchev communicate his demands to President Kennedy?
telegram
300
Who led a revolution to overthrow the Cuban government in 1959?
Fidel Castro
300
How did the US discover that there were missiles in Cuba?
U2 spy planes
300
Where did the USA have missiles that could harm the Soviet Union, in 1962?
Turkey
300
What organization devised assassination attempts on Castro after he declared Cuba as a Communist country
CIA
300
Identify 1 thing that the USA and the USSR competed for after WWII.
arms race/space race
400
What is the name of the committee that Kennedy set up to help him find a solution for the missiles in Cuba?
EXCOMM
400
What is the code name for the US going to war?
DEFCON 1
400
What is the name of the place where the US and Cuban exiles failed miserably to overthrow Castro?
Bay of Pigs
400
What was the government of Cuba considered when it was being run by Batista?
corrupt
400
America believes in private ownership of businesses and property. What is this known as?
capitalism
500
What are the top leaders of the US armed forces called?
Joint Chiefs of staff
500
What did Khrushchev build in Berlin to keep the East Berliners from moving to West Berlin?
Berlin Wall
500
Which country was divided between the USSR, France, Britain and the US after WWII? (The USSR got the East side of it)
Germany
500
What is the term used to describe the relationship between the USSR and the USA after WWII?
cold war
500
What is the term DEFCON short for?
Defense condition