Chapter 12 - Cold War

Question 1

Who was Batista?

Answer 1

Leader of Cuba before Castro and was pro-American but was corrupt and unpopular

Question 2

Who was Castro’s minister of industry?

Answer 2

Che Guevara

Question 2

Who was Castro?

Answer 2

Overthrew Batista regime in 1956 with 81 revolutionaries and was pro-USSR

Question 3

What was Castro and his crew called?

Answer 3

‘Los barbudos’ - bearded ones

Question 4

When did Castro take control of Havana?

Answer 4

1st January 1959

Question 5

When did Castro start seizing American owned property?

Answer 5

May 1959

Question 6

How much arranged credit was Castro to receive from the USSR?

Answer 6

$100 million

Question 7

Why did the USA impose economic sanctions on Cuba?

Answer 7

Because American oil companies refused to refine it and Castro nationalized them

Question 8

How much was the American assets seized by Castro worth?

Answer 8

$1 billion

Question 9

What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?

Answer 9

17th April 1961 - failed attempt to remove Castro by undermining him through Cuban exiles from the Castro regime

Question 10

What was Operation Mongoose?

Answer 10

30th November 1961 - aimed to overthrow Castro through covert operations to destabilize the regime but led Castro to get closer to the USSR

Question 11

What was OPLAN 314?

Answer 11

Land based invasion into Cuba that would overthrow the Cuban government

Question 12

What was Cuba like before Castro took over?

Answer 12

Americas playground

Question 13

How many USSR troops deployed to Cuba?

Answer 13

43,000

Question 14

When was nuclear missiles discovered in Cuba?

Answer 14

14th October 1962

Question 15

When were the missiles taken out of Cuba and the reason why?

Answer 15

28th October 1962 - America agreed to take missiles out of Turkey

Question 16

What happened on the 16th October 1962?

Answer 16

Kennedy informed of the presence of Soviet Nuclear missiles

Question 17

What happened on the 22nd October?

Answer 17

Kennedy gave speech to American people condemning Soviet Union actions

Question 18

What happened on the 24th October 1962?

Answer 18

First soviet ships to reach the quarantine.. either stopped dead in the water or turned around

Question 19

What happened on the 26th October?

Answer 19

Kennedy was open to keeping diplomatic talks and Khrushchev sent a telegram to Kennedy asking for peace talks

Question 20

What happened on the 28th October?

Answer 20

Khrushchev removed missiles from Cuba and Kennedy removed missiles from Turkey secretly

Question 21

What happened in April 1960?

Answer 21

The first shipment of Crude Oil arrived in Cuba but US owned oil companies refused to refine it. Castro nationalised them

Question 22

Winners and Losers of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 22

Castro was angered at peace agreements between both the USSR and the USA however he still remained in power - Slight Winner
USSR embarrassed on the world stage and took their missiles out of Cuba due to American pressure. - Loser
USA were able to get the missiles out of Cuba however there still was a Cuba that was communist in their backyard

Question 23

How did the USA react to Castro’s deliberate ‘policy of hostility’?

Answer 23

USA put a trade embargo on Cuba. Burned all the sugar cane fields which were the main source of trade with Cuba