Outbreak Of Cuban Missile Crisis
8 Questions
| Attempts: 74
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Questions and Answers
- 1.Cuba was the country that proposed the installation of the missiles on its territory.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.The USA invaded Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.What was Project Mongoose about? (a) Assassination attempts targeted at Castro and other Cuban leaders (b) Embargo against Cuba (c) Economic warfare (d) Sabotage against Castro's regime
- A.
(a), (c), (d)
- B.
(b), (c), (d)
- C.
All of the above
- 4.Cuba wanted to reveal the installation of the missiles on its territory, but the Soviet Union refused.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Why did the Soviet Union install missiles in Cuba? (There is more than one correct answer)
- A.
Because it wanted to overcome the missile gap
- B.
Because it wanted to counter the US's missiles in Turkey
- C.
Because it wanted to deter any American invasion of Cuba
- D.
Because Cuba wanted it to
- 6.The USA only found out about the missiles in Cuba when its spy plane took photographs of these missiles.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Because the USA did not give any warning about placing offensive weapons in Cuba, the Soviet Union thought it was okay to do so.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.The Soviet Union lied to the United States about the missiles.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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