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Cold War and Khrushchev
Cold War and Khrushchev
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What policy did Khrushchev want to adopt to decrease tension with the West?
Isolation
International Investment
Passive Aggression
Peaceful Coexistence
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In the USSR the people were...
Calm
Panicked
3
What did the Pravda article of Saturday 27th October report?
Nice weather for the weekend
Panic buying in the USA
Panic buying in the USSR
Nuclear Armageddon
4
Russian state press reported that USSR missiles were in Cuba...
True
False
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In his "secret speech" what did Khrushchev accuse Stalin of?
Creating "suspicion, fear and terror"
Colluding with Hitler and fighting against Russia
Killing his brother
Cooking without "spices, food and thyme"
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Which cities could US missiles destroy?
Yekaterinburg
Minsk
Moscow
Kiev
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What did intelligence reports tell JFK?
Castro was dead
Large Red Army regiment on Cuba
Khrushchev was in Cuba
Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba
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When was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
April 1961
June 1964
September 1962
April 1963
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What type of deals had the USSR and Cuba done?
Record
Trade and arms
Dodgy
Brexit
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How did Russians learn more about events in Cuba?
Foreign radio
Pravda
American leaflet drops
Twitter
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When was the Cuban missile crisis?
January 8 - March 2 1963
October 14 - 28 October 1962
October 26 - November 15 1964
September 30, 1963 - March 1964
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Where did the USA have missiles near the USSR?
North Pole
Finland
China
Turkey
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What part of the Cuban missile deal was kept secret?
America removed their missiles from Turkey as well
Russia withdrew from the UN
Turkey had formed an alliance with America
Khrushchev was in love with Kennedy
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Where did the USA publicly ask the USSR about missiles in Cuba?
EEC, Berlin
UN, New York
IMF, Geneva
NATO, London
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How was the Cuban Crisis reported in the USSR?
Cuban aggression
American aggression
Russian aggression
Misunderstanding
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Why was Cuba significant to the USSR?
First Communist state in the Western Hemisphere
Nice place to go on holiday
Birth place of Karl Marx
First Communist state outside the USSR
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What kind of action did America take against Cuba?
Full invasion
Naval quarantine/blockade
Reconnaissance only
Aerial bombings
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What was installed between the USSR and America after the Cuban missile crisis?
Hotline
60 Hz radio channel
Pipeline
A tunnel
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When did Stalin die?
June 1953
March 1953
June 1952
March 1954
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Which newspaper first reported the Cuban Crisis in the USSR?
Moscow Times
Pravda
Khrushchev Chronicle
Iskra
