When the Soviet Union Attempted to Install Nuclear Weapons in Cuba

question 34

Multiple Choice

When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered

• A) the installation of nuclear weapons in Turkey.
• B) surgical air strikes against the missile sites.
• C) a ground invasion of Cuba naval landing at Guantanamo Bay.
• D) an aerial bombing of all of Cuba.
• E) a naval quarantine of that island.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population, calculated as the square root of the variance.

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of values obtained from sample data, which has a high probability of encompassing an unknown characteristic of the entire population.

Mean

The mean, often referred to as the average, is a statistic that represents the central or typical value in a set of data, calculated by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

Population Standard Error

A measure that estimates the variability of sample means around the population mean if multiple samples were taken from the population.