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Cuba is located approximately 90 miles from the coast of this state.
What is Florida?
Many people from the military wanted to invade Cuba to make up for this disaster.
What is the Bay of Pigs disaster?
This Cuban led a communist revolution in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Giving an adversary what they want or “giving in” is known as this term.
What is Appeasement?
This type of spy plane was used to take pictures of the Cuban missiles.
What is the U-2?
This person lost to JFK in 1960 in a very close election.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This person was chosen as JFK’s running mate because he could get Southern votes.
Who is Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)?
This new format was used for the first time in the debates of 1960.
What is television?
Kennedy’s image of youth, energy, and optimism was also known as this.
What is Mystique?
JFK’s candidacy was controversial because he was the first candidate to be this.
What is Catholic?
This person was the first man on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This nation had the first person in space.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR, Russia)?
We went to the Moon primarily to do this.
What is show our superiority (better than) over USSR?
This program was highlighted by landing on the Moon.
What is Apollo?
This person was the first man in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This person was found guilty of killing JFK.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This is a secret plot to commit an illegal act.
What is a conspiracy?
This is the intentional murder of a ruler or leader of a nation.
What is an assassination?
This was the building that LHO shot from.
What is the Texas School Book Depository?
Many conspiracy theorists believe the shot that killed Kennedy actually came from this area.
What is the “grassy knoll?”
This person was JFK’s close advisor and his Attorney General
Who is Robert (Bobby) Kennedy?
This Chief Justice led the investigation into Kennedy’s murder.
Who is Earl Warren?
This Russian was leader during the Cuban missile crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This person was the first American in space.
Who is John Glenn?
This person shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before he had a chance to talk to the police.
Who is Jack Ruby?
The competition between the US and the USSR to new “firsts” in space was known as this.
What is the Space Race?
This strategy of not letting any ships through was used by Kennedy during the missile crisis.
What is a blockade?
The bullet that seemingly changed directions in mid-air and was found in near- perfect condition was called this.
What is the “magic bullet?”
This was one of the projects that made the Apollo moon landings possible.
What is Mercury or Gemini?
This film is the most complete visual record of what happened in JFK’s shooting.
What is the Zapruder film?
Make your wager
This Apollo mission featured Armstrong’s Moon landing (1) in which he said these famous words (2x).
What is Apollo 11, where he said “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind?”