exam final pt 3

Question 1

Kennedy wanted to show that young Americans don’t always want to go to college. So, he puts young Americans around the world help build strong communities. What is this called what is the significance?

Answer 1

Peace Corps; To build more alliances around the world to prevent people from being drawn to communism.

Question 2

In Eisenhower last year as president what plan did his advisor give to him?

Answer 2

To kill Fidel Castro and put in power someone who agrees with USA ideas but also say USA is not responsible for the assassination of Castro.

Question 3

What did Kennedy do when he was told of the plans? Where did the Cuban soldiers get sent to?

Answer 3

He tried out the plans and sent a battle fleet to Cuba and landed the 2000 Cubans on the site of Bay of Pigs and was attacked.

Question 3

Who train in Florida 2000 Cubans in military tactics and go back to Cuba and use tactics and starts a uprising in Cuba that will kill Fidel Castro?

Answer 3

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

Question 3

Who did the 2000 Cubans call when captured?

Answer 3

Call the captains of the battle ships for support.

Question 4

Did Eisenhower have enough time to implement his plans?

Answer 4

no

Question 5

What is the land foundation of the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 5

Bay of Pigs

Question 5

Did Kennedy help the 2000 Cubans?

Answer 5

no and the surviving Cubans confessed that USA was behind it.

Question 6

During the summons does Kennedy help Nikita stop the people on soviet side of berlin from trying to get to USA side of berlin?

Answer 6

No and then the summon ends.

Question 6

What does Nikita ask Kennedy?

Answer 6

To help him stop the people on soviet side of berlin from trying to get to USA side of berlin.

Question 6

What is the closest standoff we came to nuclear war?

Answer 6

13-day standoff

Question 6

Where does Kennedy go to meet with Nikita?

Answer 6

Berlin to meet Nikita Khrushchev for the first time.

Question 6

During the Cuban missile crisis American soldiers fly over Cuba and take pictures and find the Soviet Union have how many active nuclear weapons?

Answer 6

34 sites but 26 active weapon sites

Question 6

What kind of wall does Nikita ordered the soviet military to go to the border and build?

Answer 6

Berlin Wall

Question 7

What happened for 13 days?

Answer 7

USA implements a blockade against Cuba to prevent anymore nuclear weapons from coming in.

Question 8

Who negotiated an end to the Cuban missile crisis and meets with the soviet ambassador? Why? Did this meeting end the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 8

Bobby Kennedy because JFK was to high. Yes

Question 8

What was the negotiation between Bobby Kennedy and the soviet ambassador?

Answer 8

The United States will never try and remove Fidel Castro from power and USA will remove nuclear missiles in Turkey if Soviets remove missiles from Cuba.