Before the Cuban Missile Crisis

4. European city where John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev had a tense summit in 1961.
7. 19th-century US doctrine often invoked to justify keeping European powers out of the Western Hemisphere.
9. High-altitude American spy plane that began flying reconnaissance missions over Cuba.
10. US naval base located on the southeastern end of Cuba.
12. The primary agricultural export of Cuba; the US stopped buying it, and the USSR agreed to purchase it instead.
14. Eurasian country hosting US nuclear missiles on its soil, prompting Soviet retaliation.
15. Location of the disastrous 1961 invasion by CIA-backed Cuban paramilitary forces.
17. Leader of the Cuban Revolution who aligned his country's politics and economy with Moscow.
18. Soviet Premier who allied with Cuba and ultimately decided to place nuclear missiles on the island.
19. US President who approved the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion shortly after taking office.

1. Cuban dictator who was overthrown in the 1959 revolution.
2. CIA covert program initiated after 1961 aimed at destabilizing the Cuban government: Operation ________.
3. US state located just 90 miles from the Cuban coast.
5. A total ban on trade; the US imposed a strict one on Cuba in 1960.
6. Name of the US intermediate-range ballistic missiles placed in Europe.
8. The term for the Cuban people who fled the revolution to the US and were recruited to fight.
10. Argentine Marxist revolutionary and tactician who was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution.
11. The US agency that recruited and trained Brigade 2506 for the 1961 invasion of Cuba.
13. The communist superpower that became Cuba's primary economic and military ally.
16. US President who originally authorized the CIA to plan the overthrow of the Cuban government.