26. LIBERALISM AND ITS CHALLENGERS, 1960

Quiz for Guided Analysis Document 26.1 Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Quiz for Guided Analysis Document 26.1: Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What are the “teeth” in Fidel Castro’s mouth in this cartoon?

Teeth

Missiles

Communism

Ships

2. What is meant by the caption, “This hurts me more than it hurts you!”?

Khrushchev would cut off support to Cuba if Castro used the missiles.

Castro recognized that the United States would respond with debilitating military force.

Castro had to compromise a great deal to end the conflict.

Khrushchev stood to lose more than Castro when the missiles were removed.

3. Based on the image, who did the artist, Edmund Valtman, see as the victor of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

The Soviet Union

The United States

Cuba

Fidel Castro

4. What does the image suggest about the position of Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union in global politics and power struggles?

He was a dominant player even if he sometimes lost.

He never lost a conflict against an equal opponent.

He was weaker than many of the other Communist leaders.

The Soviet Union had no place in global political struggles.

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