Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 1

1954

Answer 1

Guatemalan Coup

Question 2

1955

Answer 2

Warsaw Pact

Question 3

Oct 1957

Answer 3

Sputnik Launched - Space Race

Question 4

Jan 1959

Answer 4

Castro becomes PM of Cuba

Question 5

Apr 1959

Answer 5

Castro meets Nixon

Question 6

May 1959

Answer 6

Land Reform Law by Castro + nationalisation of private property

Question 7

Feb 1960

Answer 7

Mikoyan-Castro Trade Talks

Question 8

Apr 1960

Answer 8

Castro Nationalises US industries after pressure from US not to process Soviet oil

Question 9

May 1960

Answer 9

Castro establishes Diplomatic relations with USSR

Question 10

Nov 1960

Answer 10

USA places embargo on exports to Cuba

Question 11

Jan 1961

Answer 11

John F Kennedy replaces Eisenhower as US President

Question 12

17 Apr 1961

Answer 12

Bay of Pigs Invasion (Failure)

Question 13

May 1961

Answer 13

Castro declares Cuba a Socialist state

Question 14

Aug 1961

Answer 14

Berlin Wall erected

Question 15

End Nov 1961

Answer 15

Kennedy authorises Operation Mongoose

Question 16

Dec 1961

Answer 16

Castro declares Cuba a “Marxist-Leninist” State

Question 17

16-28 October 1962

Answer 17

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 18

16 Oct 1962

Answer 18

US discovers missiles in Cuba

Question 19

22 Oct 1962

Answer 19

US announcement of Missiles + Naval Blockade of Cuba

Question 20

24 Oct 1962

Answer 20

Khrushchev refuses to remove missiles

Question 21

26 Oct 1962

Answer 21

Krushchev’s First Letter to Kennedy:

- Removal of missiles on Condition of US Guarantee to not invade Cuba

Question 22

27 Oct 1962

Answer 22

Khrushchev’s Second Letter to Kennedy:
- Trade Soviet missiles in Cuba for US Jupiter missiles in Turkey

Kennedy secretly meets Soviet ambassador Dobryin;
US to publicly agree on terms of First while secretly agreeing to the Second

Question 23

28 Oct 1962

Answer 23

Khrushchev removes missiles from Cuba