Question

27. The incident that began the tensions of the Cuban Missile Crisis was...

a. Fidel Castro taking over and changing Cuba's political system to communism.
b. President John F. Kennedy's strategy of containment.
c. The failed coup of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
d. The discovery by the U.S. of Soviet nuclear missile bases on the island of Cuba.

Answer 1

D. The discovery by the U.S. of Soviet nuclear missile bases on the island of Cuba.

Tension increased between the US and Cuba when a U-2 spy plane flying over Cuba discovered the construction of missle sites.