1.13 Cuban Missle Crisis

Question 1

In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the dictator of _________ and instituted a socialist dictatorship.

Answer 1

Cuba

Question 2

The CIA planned the 1961 invasion of Cuba and the bay of pigs in hopes that the Cuban people would overthrow Castro. Who were used as troops?

Answer 2

Cuban exiles

Question 3

In 1962, the Soviet Union and Cubans began to build what in Cuba?

Answer 3

Intermediate-and medium range ballistic middle complexes.

Question 4

How was the Soviet construction of missle complexes in Cuba confirmed?

Answer 4

Through USAF reconnaissance flights (high altitude U2 aircraft followed by low-level RF-101s and RB-66s)

Question 5

When Cuban air defenses shot down a U2 Piloted by Maj. Rudolf Anderson, what did the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend?

Answer 5

An immediate air strike against Cuba. (President Kennedy decided to wait.)

Question 6

The US agreed not to invade Cuba in exchange for removal of soviet missiles from the island. What did the US secretly agree to do?

Answer 6

Remove US missiles from Turkey.

Question 7

T/F
The Cuban missile crisis brought the world dangerously close to nuclear war, but the strategic and tactical power of the USAF (coupled with the will and ability to use it) helped deter it.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

While strategic Air Command prepared for a possible invasion of and war with Cuba, what did president Kennedy do to neutralize the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 8

He imposed a naval blockade to prevent anymore material from reaching Cuba and negotiated with soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles.