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1. How did the United States find out that the U.S.S.R.' was placing missiles in Cuba?

2. What did the U.S.S.R. disguise a large naval shipyard in Cuba as?

3. Did the United States expect that the U.S.S.R. would put offensive weapons in Cuba? A. Did the U.S.S.R. say that it would put offensive weapons in Cuba?

5. Had the U.S.S.R. put offensive weapons in any of its satellites before?

6. What was the Ex Comm?

"The President...knew he would have to act."

7. Why did Robert McNamara not recommend a strategic air strike against Soviet missile bases in Cuba?

8. How soon did it appear that Soviet missiles would be operational?

9. Where were the missiles in Cuba pointed?

10. What was the situation in Berlin, Germany, starting in August 1961 that made it vulnerable in the fall of 1962?

11. Why did a blockade of Cuba seem better to President John F. Kennedy than an attack on Cuba? (Hint: It has to do with the tradition, history, and moral position of the United States.)

12. What kind of assistance did Soviet ambassador Andrei Gromyko claim the U.S.S.R. was providing to Cuba?

"A majority opinion...for a blockade..."

13. In addition to a legal basis for a blockade2, what other conditions did advocates for a blockade have to consider?

"It was now up to one single man."

14. What were reasons that a major surprise air attack of the United States on Cuba was not a good idea?

15. The United States had missiles that it considered withdrawing in an attempt to resolve the crisis. Where were those missiles located?

16. In which country was (is) the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay?

17. What was the significance of the Organization of American States' (OAS) support for a U.S.¬led quarantine of Cuba?

18. How did U.S. troops, ships, bomber forces, and atomic weapons prepare before the U.S. announcement of a blockade?

19. What did Robert McNamara think It would take to Invade Cuba In terms of men, air sorties, and Marines? What was the estimate of U.S. casualties?

"The important meeting of the OAS..."

20. What kind of support did the OAS give the U.S. proposal for a quarantlne/blackade?

21. What were the rules given to the U.S. Navy for Intercepting a Soviet merchant vessel In the quarantine zone?

22. What Is the significance of Jahn F. Kennedy's statement about the possibility of baby food on a Soviet ship bound for Cuba?

23. While neither the United States nor U.S.S.R. seemed to wont to go to war over Cuba, for what reasons might an stoat, response, 'cam...response and excision no armed conflict" happen?

"1 met with Dobrynin..."

In this chapmr, Robert Kennedy, in a meeting with Anatoly Dobrynk,, revealed that the United States had known abase the Soviet missiles F Cuba for several days and that Andrei Gromyko had lied to John Kennedy abaft them during their October 17, 1962, meeting In the White House pee "The Presklent...knew he would have to act."). Oddly, Dobrynin asked Raton Kennedy why John Kennedy had not told Gromyko he knew about the weapons, while Robert Kennedy asked Dobrynin why Gromyko had not told Jahn Kennedy he knew.

"The danger was anything but over."

(This chapter describes the televised confrontation between U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson and Soviet ambassador to the United Nations V. A. Zcin F a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.)

24. Why did Jahn Kennedy disagree with U Than, the acing Secretary General of the United Nations, that the quarantine be lifted?

25. Did the U.S.S.R. stop building missile sites Immediately following ships being stopped at the quarantine line?

"There were almost doily communications with Khrushchev."

26. Why did Jahn Kennedy assume -cr no sane man would "deliberately plunge the world Into war"?

27. What was the primary farm of communication between John Kennedy and Nikko Khrushchev &ging the Cuban Missile Olds?

28. Why did Jahn Kennedy wan the Maruda Inspected?

"Expect very heavy casualties in en invasion."

29. To what historical events was Robert Kennedy referring by mandating "the landing at the Bay of Pigs" and 'Vienna"?

30. What was hatito Khnishchev's explanation to John Kennedy foe sensing weapons to Cuba?

31. What did Khrushchev think was the effect on the economy for commutating isodmillng) armaments?

32. What did Khrushchev want the United States to do in exchange for withdrawing and destroying weapons the Soviet Union pie In Cuba and for sending no additional weapons there?

33. Who was the role of ABC (the U.S. television network) In negotiations between the United States and U.S.S.R.? What does this say about the quality of cannIcatIon between the two countries In the early 19601?

"This would mean war."

34. What did the U.S.S.R. ask the United States to do in Turkey? For what reasons did this seem like a good idea to the United States?

35. What was (is) NATO? What were the implications of the Cuban Missile Crisis on it?

36. What was the significance of the death of Major Rudolf Anderson Jr. in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

"Those hours in the Cabinet Room..."

37. In his letter to Nikita Khrushchev, to what was John Kennedy referring in saying "a more general arrangement regarding 'other armaments"'?

"The President ordered the Ex Comm..."

38. Why did the United States insist on continuing to fly photographic reconnaissance planes over Cuba?

39. Who had the ultimate authority to remove missiles from Cuba?