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P8-Kennedy and Cuban Missile Crisis
P8-Kennedy and Cuban Missile Crisis
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The US used this tactic to stop the USSR from putting nuclear missiles in Cuba
Threat of retaliation vs USSR
an equal invasion of East Germany and in East Berlin
none of these
A quarantine of Cuba
2
The Bay of Pigs invasion centered on which country?
Cuba
Panama
Japan
Russia
3
The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted for this long in 1962
12 hours
13 days
almost a full month
5 days
4
This country tried to build nuclear launch sites in Cuba during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR/Soviet Union/Russia
North Korea
China
East Germany
5
Lyndon Johnson defeated this man in a landslide in the 1964 election
Barry Goldwater
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
George Wallace
6
The Cuban leader who the US wanted to overthrow at the Bay of Pigs was
Sterling Castro
Fidel Castro
Raul Castro
Mikhail Gorbechev
7
The Berlin Wall was built while this president was in charge
Dwight Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Harry Truman
Lyndon Johnson
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What form of media helped influence the 1960 election between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon?
Radio
Mobile/Cellular devices
Computers
Television
9
The first man to step on the moon was
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Alan Shappard
John Glenn
10
What form of media helped influence the 1960 election between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon?
Radio
Television
Mobile/Cellular devices
Computers
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This Russian leader ordered the building of the Berlin Wall
Ivan Drago
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Kruschev