Cuba

Question 1

Brinkmanship

Answer 1

Purposely escalating a dangerous situation to the limit ( brink), while giving the impression that you are willing to go to war, in the hope of pressuring your opponents to back down.

Question 2

Bay of Pigs invasion

Answer 2

The failed invasion of 1500 Cuban exiles into Cuba in order to overthrow Fidel Casto in 1961.

Question 3

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 3

A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war

Question 4

Quarantine

Answer 4

Kennedy’s proposed blockade of Cuba.

Question 5

EX-COMM

Answer 5

Executive Committee for National Security Council

Question 6

Test Ban Treaty

Answer 6

Set in 1963 in which USSR & USA agreed to not test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, outer space, or underwater.

Question 7

John F. Kennedy

Answer 7

POTUS during Cuban Missile Crisis.

Question 8

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 8

Soviet premier during Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 9

Fidel Castro

Answer 9

Cuban dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis