Key People/Terms
This person was the 35th President of the United States
Who is John F. Kennedy? (JFK)
This is the name of JFK's foreign policy.
What is Flexible Response?
This person gained power because of the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The Soviets had these in Cuba.
What are Missiles?
This got built because of East Germans defecting.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This president took over when JFK was assassinated.
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson? (Lyndon B. Johnson) (LBJ)
Lyndon B. Johnson did this with Kennedy's foreign policy when he took over as president.
What is kept it going?
Congress established these on Cuban suagr.
What are trade barriers? (embargo)
Americans became alarmed of this so close to home.
What is a Communist government?
This is why Khrushchev did not sign a treaty with East Berlin.
What is Kennedy's determination? or What is America's superior nuclear arms?
This person helped bring Communism to Cuba and was the First Secretary of the Communist Party.
Who is Fidel Castro?
What is stop the spread of communism?
This is how long the Cuban Revolution took place.
What is three (3) years?
Eisenhower gave this agency permission to train Cuban exiles for an invasion.
What is the CIA?
This many East Germans fled the country after the Berlin Airlift.
What is three (3) million?
This person was Fidel Castro's right hand man.
Who is Che Guevara?
This is what Flexible Response was based on.
What is the domino theory?
This person was the dictator of Cuba before the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Fulgencio Batista? (Batista)
The US did this to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is quarantine? (blockade)
Khrushchev threatened to sign a treaty with East Germany that would do this.
What is cut off access from West Germany to Berlin?