Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 1

What regime was overthrown by Fidel Castro?

Answer 1

The Batista regime

Question 2

When did Fidel Castro take control in Cuba?

Answer 2

January 1959

Question 3

What did Castro’s programme of agrarian reform lead to?

Answer 3

Considerable amounts of American-owned property being seized by the state

Question 4

Who visited Cuba in February 1960?

Answer 4

Mikoyan - Soviet First Deputy Premier

Question 5

How much did Mikoyan arrange to send Cuba?

Answer 5

$100m

Question 6

How did the US react when the USSR sent the first shipment of crude oil to Cuba?

Answer 6

US-owned oil companies refused to refine it

Question 7

When did the USSR send the first shipment of crude oil to Cuba?

Answer 7

April 1960

Question 8

How did USA punish Cuba for nationalising their oil companies?

Answer 8

-Imposed economic sanctions
-Reduced their imports of Cuban sugar by 95%

Question 9

How did Castro react to the US refusing to refine their oil?

Answer 9

Nationalised them

Question 10

How did Castro react to the reduced imports on Cuban sugar?

Answer 10

Seized $1b worth of US assets on Cuba

Question 11

When did Castro seize $1b worth of US assets on Cuba?

Answer 11

October 1960

Question 12

When was the Bay of Pigs invasion?

Answer 12

April 1961

Question 13

What was the plan for the Bay of Pigs invasion?

Answer 13

To enable 1500 anti-Castro exiles to land on Cuba and carry out a military coup to remove him

Question 14

When was Operation Mongoose authorised?

Answer 14

30th November 1961

Question 15

What was the aim of Operation Mongoose?

Answer 15

To overthrow Castro and his regime

Question 16

How were they trying to overthrow Castro in Operation Mongoose?

Answer 16

Primarily through the use of covert operations

Question 17

What are covert operations?

Answer 17

Involves:
-Gathering intelligence information
-Forms of economic sabotage and psychological intimidation through propaganda

Question 18

How did Khrushchev react to US threat on Cuba?

Answer 18

Deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba

Question 19

What operation involved the Soviet decision to deploy nuclear missiles?

Answer 19

Operation Anadyr

Question 20

What did the Soviets provide to Cuba?

Answer 20

-Fighter planes
-Bombers
-14,000 ground troops

Question 21

How did the secrecy of Soviet’s deployment of missile bases end?

Answer 21

U-2 Spy plane brought unmistakable evidence

Question 22

What decision did Kennedy make in regards to the Cuban missiles bases?

Answer 22

Enforce a naval blockade that would stem the flow of missiles entering Cuba

Question 23

How did Soviet ships react to the blockade?

Answer 23

Either stopped dead in the water or turned around

Question 24

What basic proposal did Khrushchev make with the US?

Answer 24

USSR would remove its military presence in Cuba, in return for a non-invasion pledge

Question 25

What threatened the ending of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 25

Castro ordering Cuban anti-aircraft forces to start firing on low-level planes as he was convinced an American attack was imminent

Question 26

When did Khrushchev agree to remove the missiles?

Answer 26

28th October 1962

Question 27

What was the immediate response to the resolving of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 27

‘Hot-line’ between the Kremlin and the White House

Question 28

What was signed in October 1963?

Answer 28

The Moscow Test Ban Treaty

Question 29

How did the US fail overall with Cuba?

Answer 29

Failure to containment and Truman Doctrine had failed