Debriefing Quiz Part I

1. When did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur? A) November 1963 C) April 1961 B) October 1962 D) September 1959

2. Who was the Soviet Premier at the time of the crisis? A) Stalin C) Khrushchev B) Lenin D) Brezhnev

3. Who was the American President during the crisis? A) Carter C) Nixon B) Johnson D) Kennedy

4. Who was the leader in power in Cuba at the time of the crisis? A) Batista C) Castro B) Peron D) Noriega

5. What event, that happened in April 1961, lead the Cubans to believe that the U.S. was considering overthrowing the Castro regime? A) the Cuban Missile Crisis C) ORTSAC B) the Bay of Pigs invasion D) the Cuban Revolution

6. What does the acronym ORTSAC stand for? A) a CIA term for a deep cover agent in Cuba C) a U.S. military buzzword for Operational Rotational Transfers for Strategic Air Command B) a Soviet military term for MIRVs (multiple independent re-entry vehicles) D) a code name for a mock invasion of Cuba (Castro spelled backwards)

7. What other international body, other than the U.N., condemned the Soviet Union's placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba? A) Organization of American States (OAS) C) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) B) European Economic Community (EEC) D) Warsaw Pact

8. The missiles were first discovered when Richard Heyser, a _____ pilot, flew over Cuba. A) RF-101 C) RF-8 Crusader B) SR-71 Blackbird D) U-2

9. What was the name of Kennedy's special group of advisors? A) COMECON C) EX-COMM B) NSA D) Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

10. The U.S. missiles in _____ threatened the Soviet Union much like the Soviet missiles in Cuba threatened the U.S. A) West Germany C) Finland B) Turkey D) India

Take Part II (the next ten questions) of the quiz.
See the answers to Part I

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