Arms Race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Key People
Detente
Random
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What year did the USA first use the atomic bomb?
1945
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Who was the U.S. President during the Crisis?
John F Kennedy
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Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
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What does the word “Détente” mean?
A 'relaxation of tensions'
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Cuba is how many miles from the U.S. coast?
90 miles
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Which country tested its first atomic bomb in 1949?
USSR (Soviets)
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What year did the Cuban Missile Crisis happen?
1962
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Who was the communist leader of Cuba at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Fidel Castro
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Who was the first US President to visit Moscow?
Richard Nixon
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Which failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 embarrassed the U.S.?
Bay of Pigs
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What does “ICBM” stand for?
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
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What was the U.S. military response to the missiles in Cuba?
Naval Blockade (quarantine)
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While Nixon was the president of the US, who was the leader of the USSR at the time?
Leonid Brezhnev
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What was the name of the first arms limitation agreement signed in 1972?
SALT
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Who was the first man in space?
Yuri Gagarin
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What was the doctrine/theory called where both sides could destroy each other with nuclear weapons?
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) theory
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What secret concession did the U.S. make to the USSR to end the crisis?
Remove their missiles from Turkey and Italy.
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Which U.S. Attorney General helped negotiate during the Crisis?
Robert Kennedy
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What was the main reason the US wanted 'Detente'?
Cost of the Vietnam war.
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How did the US discover that the Soviets were storing missiles in Cuba
Spy Planes
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The famous cartoon of JFK and Krushchev depicts them doing what ?
Arm Wrestling
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How many days did the crisis last?
13 days
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Which Soviet naval officer prevented a nuclear launch from a submarine in 1962?
Vasili Arkhipov
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Conflicts in which a third party intervenes indirectly in a pre-existing war in order to influence the strategic outcome in favour of its preferred faction. What am I ?
A Proxy War
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What level DEFCON was put out during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
DEFCON 2