Cuban Misslie Crisis

Question 1

How far away was Cuba from Florida

Answer 1

90 miles

Question 2

What happened in Cuba in 1959

Answer 2

Rebel Fidel Castro took power

Question 3

Why did Castro lead a revolution

(resent,corrupt,little)

Answer 3

Resentment towards president Batista
His government was corrupt and inefficient
Did little to alleviate poverty in the wider population
Resented how much of their economy was owned by USA

Question 4

What was the Cuban economy reliant on

Answer 4

Sugar trade

Question 5

What did the season nature of the industry mean

Answer 5

Many workers were unpaid for much of the year

Question 6

USA didn’t initially view Castro as an enemy but when did the become more aggressive

Answer 6

When Castro began to nationalise American companies

Question 7

In American aggression what did they do

Answer 7

Stopped providing aid and all imports of Cuban sugar

Question 8

American aggression led to..

Answer 8

Castro turning to Soviet Union for help
Soviet Union secured an ally in the Western hemisphere
Promised to buy 1 million tonnes of sugar every year
Castro who was not a communist became one

Question 9

What was the result of Castro becoming communist

Answer 9

Relations between Cuba and America began to dissolved

Question 10

Who succeeded who in 1961

Answer 10

Kennedy succeeded Eisenhower fr
LET HIM COM TO BARLIN :SPEAK: :FIRE: x3

Question 11

What was Kennedy briefed on

Answer 11

Eisenhower’s plan to topple Castro which included 1300 Cuban exiles trained in Guatemala

Question 12

What happened in April 1961

Answer 12

Cuban exiles landed on the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
in an attempt to overthrow Castro

Question 13

How successful were the Cuban exiles

Answer 13

There weren’t
Castro neg dif’d

Question 14

The attempt to overthrow Castro led to…

Answer 14

Castro asked Russia for weapons to defend against America in September 1961
Led to development of nuclear weapons on Cuban soil in 1962

Question 15

What happened in October 1962

Answer 15

U-2 spy plane captured images of the weapons under construction

Question 16

Why was Kennedy extremely concerned

Answer 16

Most US cities were within reach of Soviet missiles
Each able to reach their target in minutes

Question 17

In Kennedy’s concern of the missiles what did he do

(established what,demanded)

Answer 17

Established a quarantine around Cuba to prevent any more nuclear weapons to be transported into it
Kennedy gave a speech demanding USSR to remove missile sites and any missiles that were already there

Question 18

What did Kennedy’s speech lead to

Answer 18

Agreements being made in UN council debate
Missile would be removed - US promised to not invade Cuba
Secretly agreed that US would dismantle missiles in Turkey

Question 19

Overall impacts of the CMC

Answer 19

Positive impacts on relations
Hotline was established between Washington and Moscow
Discussion would take 12 hours to receive and decode - dangerously long time

Question 20

What was agreed after the CMC between US and SU

Answer 20

Test Ban Treaty - nuclear test could only be done underground - Jul 1963
Outer Space Treaty - prohibited tests in space - Jan 1967
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - 1968 - prevented nations from getting info and technology to build nuclear weapons

Question 21

What was agreed after the CMC between US and SU

Answer 21

Test Ban Treaty - nuclear test could only be done underground - Jul 1963
Outer Space Treaty - prohibited tests in space - Jan 1967
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - 1968 - prevented nations from getting info and technology to build nuclear weapons