GCSE History Cold War Cuba 1958 - 1962

Question 1

Name the advisors to Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Accepted Answer

Hawks and Doves

Question 2

Which group persuaded Kennedy to carry out the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

Accepted Answer

CIA

Question 3

Why had tension increased between the USA and USSR by 1961?

Accepted Answer

Both were becoming more aggitated with one another, Both had developed significant amounts of nuclear weapons, Neither of them were prepared to back down from aggression, Neither of them trusted one another

Question 4

How many troops invaded the Bay of Pigs in 1961?

Accepted Answer

1,400 Cuban-exile army

Question 5

Name the specialist planes the USA had developed to drop nuclear weapons

Accepted Answer

B52 Bombers

Question 6

America had control of which resources in Cuba in the early 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Phone, electricity and oil

Question 7

Name the bomb the Sovet Union had created by 1961

Accepted Answer

Tsar Bomba

Question 8

Who is this man?

Accepted Answer

Khrushchev

Question 9

When was the Bay of Pigs Invasion held?

Accepted Answer

April 1961

Question 10

What was Sputnik 1?

Accepted Answer

USSR Satellite

Question 11

Who is this person?

Accepted Answer

Castro

Question 12

Name the revolutionary leader of Cuba who took power from Batista

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Question 13

What was an immediate consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

A hotline was establised between the USA and the USSR

Question 14

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis stop?

Accepted Answer

The ships blocked the Soviet ships so they turned back

Question 15

What is the definition of the long term consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis - MAD?

Accepted Answer

Mutually Assured Destruction

GCSE History Cold War Cuba 1958 - 1962

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