Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Question 1

Why was Khrushchev taking the steps to place missiles in Cuba (at least two reasons)?

Answer 1

I. Protect Cuba
II.Threaten the USA
III.Even out the balance of power (the USA had weapons near the USSR)

Question 2

What action did President Kennedy have to choose between doing?

Answer 2

I.Blockade or Invasion
II.Bomb Cuba and risk Nuclear war
III.Protest to the UN
IV.Nothing

Question 3

What was set up around Cuba on the 22nd October and for what purpose?

Answer 3

A naval blockade

Question 4

What happened when the USSR’s ships reached the Blockade on the 24th October?

Answer 4

They turned around

Question 5

What was the difference between two telegrams that Khrushchev sent Kennedy on the 26th and 27th October?

Answer 5

The first didn’t mention the US missiles in Turkey and the second did

Question 6

What did the Americans secretly agree to do as part of the deal for the USSR removing their missiles from Cuba?

Answer 6

Remove missiles from Turkey

Question 7

Why was the hotline that was set up as a consequence of the crisis?

Answer 7

To avoid another crisis

Question 8

Where did the nuclear test ban treaty (another consequence of the crisis), signed in August 1963, prevent nuclear tests taking place?

Answer 8

Space – the atmosphere

Question 9

What was the purpose of the 1967 “Outer Space” treaty?

Answer 9

To stop nuclear weapons being placed in space

Question 10

What did the 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty mean?

Answer 10

Stop the spread of nuclear weapons to more countries