1. What was Khrushchev trying to prove in the “Kitchen Debate”?

2. How did the U-2 spy plane incident affect intelligence gathering?

3. Why were Soviet Nuclear missiles a bigger threat to the United States when placed in Cuba?

4. What did Khrushchev hope to gain with “de-Stalinization”? Did he succeed?

5. What effect did it have on nationalism in satellite states?

6. Why were the Cuban people willing to follow Castro even into communism?

7. What were the short- and long-term consequences of the Berlin Wall?

8. Why did the United States believe that WWIII would begin in Berlin?

9. Why did Khrushchev support “peaceful coexistence”? Did it change the Cold War as he hoped?

10. How might the U.S. embargo and quarantine of Cuba affect its image across Latin America?