Cuban missile Crisis (2)

Question 1

Who was running cuba and what was his reputation?

Answer 1

• General baptista

- corrupt, unpopular, against comm

Question 2

What did USA Have over Cuba?

Answer 2

-owned most business and had a naval base

Question 3

How far is cuba from AMERICA?

Answer 3

160 km - florida

Question 4

Who was fidel castro?

• when and who did he overthrow?
• what happened to his opponents

Answer 4

• 1959 after 5 years campaign he overthrew Bap.
• Won the cuban support
• • had many political opponents who he arrested exiled and killed

Question 5

What was the US response to the overthrowing of Bap - 5 -

Answer 5

• 1000’s of Cubans feld to US
• Castro overtook business
• US kept naval base
• US business in C and they didn’t co operate (this disrupted econ e.g. burn sugar plants
• June 1960 CIA investigate overthrowing castro - funds provided 2 cuban exiles in US.

Question 6

When did the USSR and C become and Allies?

-how did the USSR aid C

Answer 6

1960

- 100 milll econ aid + arms

Question 7

When did Kennedy break relations with C

Answer 7

Jan 1961

Question 8

What was the bay of pigs?

• When was it
• C response?

Answer 8

• April 1961
• USA supplied arms and transport to 1400 exiles to invade C
• exiles met by 20,000 C troops
• Castro captured and killed everyone

Question 9

What was the impact of the invasion (BOP)

Answer 9

• Castro was strengthened
• Made Us seem weak
• US unwilling to be directly involved
• USSR and cast suspicious of US policy

Question 10

What was the October crisis?

• When
• what
• What was found

Answer 10

• 14th october 1962
  1) US plane flew over Cuba
  2) Nuc missile site built by USSR
  3) 20 soviet ships carreying missiles to C

Question 11

When was the blockade

and what was it?

Answer 11

• wednesday 24th october
• missile carrying ships,
• reached 500 mile blockade zone
• 20 ships turned around

Question 12

When did Kruch send a letter and what was it about?

Answer 12

• Friday 26th october 1962

- Letter said missiles were purely defensive and that the blockade should be lifted

Question 13

What happened the 27th october in the AM

Answer 13

• Missiles removed from cuba and turkey

- U2 crisis

Question 14

When were the missiles dismantled?

Answer 14

-28th october 1962

Question 15

Why did the soviet union put missiles in cuba (6)

Answer 15

• BARGAIN WITH USA (remove turkey)
• CLOSE MISSILE GAP
• TEST USA (see real strength)
• STRENGHTEN USSR (credibility)
• TRAP USA (drawn to nuc war)
• DEFEND CUBA (comm near murica + gd propoganda

Question 16

What were the outcomes for Kennedy and the USA (4)

Answer 16

• Kennedy had improved reputation
• Turkey missiles removed however this made nato unhappy
• Cuba was still communist + near USA
• kenn stood up to hardliners in comm gov

Question 17

What were the outcomes for Khrushchev and the USSR (7)

Answer 17

• exposed to critism
• K = peacemaker
• C was a useful comm base
• Us missiles with drawn from turkey
• K overthrown
• Still missile gap
• removal from C = humiliation

Question 18

when was K overthrown?

Answer 18

1964

Question 19

What were the outcomes for Castro and Cuba (3)

Answer 19

• communist + armed
• Cast kept control of US business
• upset with US deal as they needed USSR support

Question 20

what was the outcome for the cold war?

Answer 20

• permanent hot line to the whitehouse
• thaw relations
• nuc test ban treaty
• both countries had good technology

Question 21

when was the nuclear test ban treaty signed?

Answer 21

• 1963

Question 22

What options did Kennedy have after oct crisis

Answer 22

= nuclear strike

• conventional attack
• use UN
• do nothing
• blockade