The Cuban missile crisis

Question 1

What year did china become communist?

Answer 1

China became communist in 1949

Question 2

In what year did the USSR develop their atomic bomb?

Answer 2

The USSR developed the atomic bomb in 1949

Question 3

What year did Khruschev become the leader of the Soviet Union?

Answer 3

Khrushchev became leader in 1953

Question 4

What year did Eisenhower leave office in?

Answer 4

President Eisenhower left office in 1961

Question 5

What year did JFK become president in?

Answer 5

JFK became president in 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

Question 6

What was containment?

Answer 6

Containment was the US policy designed to prevent the spread of communism and to support American interests around the globe.

Question 7

What was the marshall plan?

Answer 7

Was a plan approved by American to provide economic support to European countries resisting communism, and to help them rebuild after the Second World War.

Question 8

What was the dollar cost of the Marshall plan?

Answer 8

$12bn dollars were spent

Question 9

What was NATO?

Answer 9

Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 10

What was SEATO?

Answer 10

South East Asia Treaty Organisation

Question 11

What was CENTO?

Answer 11

Central Treaty Organizaton

Question 12

What body established alliances such as NATO?

Answer 12

The U.S State Department

Question 13

What did America offer members of its alliances in return for their support?

Answer 13

The US offered ‘Economic and Practical Support’

Question 14

What was an everyday fear of the missile crisis?

Answer 14

Being fearful of nuclear war?

Question 15

What were children taught to do in the event of a nuclear strike?

Answer 15

To ‘Duck and cover’

Question 16

What was the Polaris missile?

Answer 16

An American made ICBM which could be launched by submarine.

Question 17

What was the ‘Arms Race’?

Answer 17

A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.

Question 18

Which country had short range missiles?

Answer 18

America had short-range nuclear weapons around Europe and in Turkey.

Question 19

What was the ‘Missile Gap’?

Answer 19

The difference in number of nuclear weapons which each side had

Question 20

How many KM is Cuba from Florida?

Answer 20

160KM

Question 21

Who was Batista?

Answer 21

The leader of Cuba until 1959 who was backed by the Americans.

Question 22

Was Batista capitalist or communist?

Answer 22

Capitalist

Question 23

What happened in 1959?

Answer 23

Fidel Castro overthrew Batista after a 3-year civil war.

Question 24

What happened to the Cuban exiles?

Answer 24

Thousands fled to the US.

Question 25

What did Castro do to American owned businesses?

Answer 25

He took over some of them

Question 26

When was the Bay of Pigs invasion?

Answer 26

In April 1961

Question 27

How many Cuban troops waited for the exiles to land?

Answer 27

20,000 men along with tanks

Question 28

What was the outcome of the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 28

It ended in disaster, all the exiles were killed or rounded up and arrested within days.

Question 29

How did the Bay of Pigs effect Kennedy?

Answer 29

It made Khruschev increasingly weary of Him and it also made him look weak due to the failure.

Question 30

How did America use Influence to respond to Castro?

Answer 30

The American media was negative towards Castro, it criticized him and his policies.

Question 31

How did America Ignore Cuba to respond to Castro?

Answer 31

America broke off all diplomatic ties with Cuba. This created Tension.

Question 32

How did America use Pressure to respond to Castro?

Answer 32

American Companies would not use goods from the Soviet Union. The Media was also negative towards Castro.

Question 33

What were the five options Kennedy had to respond to the missile crisis?

Answer 33

1) Do nothing
2) Surgical air attack
3) Invasion
4) Diplomatic Pressures
5) Blockade

Question 34

Why did Kennedy choose the blockade?

Answer 34

• It was not a direct act of war
• Other options could still be used if it did not work.
• He did not embarrass the soviets by agreeing to remove missile from turkey later.
• Made Kennedy look strong by standing up to the soviets.

Question 35

What happened after the missile crisis in regard to nuclear war?

Answer 35

• It was agreed that it was the closest we’ve ever been to a nuclear war.
• Telephone hot link was setup between the UUSR and USA to avoid future crisis.
• Nuclear talks began in 1963 and a treaty to ban future tests was signed in 1963.

Question 36

How did the USA win the missile crisis?

Answer 36

• Kennedy had stood up to the soviets and was seen globally as victorious.
• Kennedy had stood up to people in his government who wanted to invade Cuba, it showed them how dangerous their ideas was and that Kennedy knew what they were doing.

Question 37

How did the USA lose the missile crisis?

Answer 37

• Kennedy agreed to remove missile from turkey, which was NATOs decision not his.
• Castro remained in charge of Cuba, and the threat of communism remained.
• Hated by the Cuban exiles since the bay of pigs gone badly.

Question 38

How did the USSR win the missile crisis?

Answer 38

• Khrushchev had prevented an American invasion of Cuba.
• he acted publicly as a peace maker.
• he got NATO missiles removed from turkey

Question 39

How did the USSR lose the Cuban missile crisis?

Answer 39

• The USSR had lied to the UN about having missiles on Cuba.
• Khrushchev had to back down to the USA, causing the USSR to look humiliated.
• Khrushchev was replaced as soviet leader, many people believe that the missile crisis caused his downfall.