DCAH 14.3 Closure (RD6)

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Cold War Crisis Under Kennedy

First and Last Name *

President Kennedy had a military policy that focused on using conventional military weapons and fighting strategies, and only using nuclear weapons as a last resort. This was called:
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a. Flexible Response

b. Second Red Scare

c. Cuban Missiles

d. Nuclear Aversion

Communist leader of Cuba who openly supported the Soviet Union
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a. Robert Kennedy

b. Nikita Khrushchev

c. Yuri Gagarin

d. Fidel Castro

When the United States discovered in 1962 that the Soviet Union was building underground nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy responded by ordering:
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a. Surgical American air strikes against the Soviet missile sites in Cuba.

b. The installation of American nuclear weapons in Turkey near the border of the Soviet Union.

c. A naval blockade and quarantine of Cuba until the Soviet missiles were removed from the island.

d. An invasion of Cuba by American military forces.

How did the United States discover that missiles were being brought into Cuba?
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A. The US noticed increasing amounts of shipments from Cuba into Europe.

B. US spies in Russia intercepted a message

C. Cuban exiles smuggled information into the US

D. Pictures taken from a United Stated U2 spy plane

What was a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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a. A thaw in the Cold War with both sides entering into talks to reduce the risk of nuclear war.

b. A souring of relations between the US and USSR and an acceleration of the arms race.

c. The ending of communist rule in Cuba and the adoption of capitalist policies.

d. The majority U.S. opinion did not approve of Kennedy's handling of the crisis, which provided the motivation for his assassination

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