Lesson 20: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 1

What were the causes of the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 1

Fidel Castro took Cuba from Batista in 1959
Castro removed american businesses

Question 2

How did America respond to Castro?

Answer 2

Refused to buy their largest export, sugar
However Russia did instead

Question 3

How did the USA physically respond to Castro?

Answer 3

April 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion
Using 1500 anti castro exiles
Failed

Question 4

What happened in 1961 to Cuba?

Answer 4

Turned communist

Question 5

What was Khrushev’s involvement in Cuba?

Answer 5

Stored nuclear weapons in Cuba has had USA done in Turkey

Question 6

What was Khrushchev’s ‘linkage strategy’?

Answer 6

Achieve more with a single threat
Wanted western out of Berlin

Question 7

How did Kennedy react to Khruschev?

Answer 7

Followed a quarantine approach
He blocked any further ships from USSR from entering Cuba without them being stopped and fully searched first

Question 8

Was Kennedy‘s quarantine approach successful ?

Answer 8

Yes, Soviet ships complied

Question 9

What term describes the tension in the Cuban missile crisis ?

Answer 9

Brinkmanship

Question 10

What were the positive results of the Cuban missile crisis? (3)

Answer 10

1. emergency telephone line between White House and the Kremlin
2. 1963: Test Ban Treaty
3. Survival of west berlin

Question 11

What was the 1963 Test Ban Treaty?

Answer 11

Stopped the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere or underwater

Question 12

What were the failures of the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 12

1. Game of brinkmanship
2. Truman Doctrine had failed