Cuban Revolution
Bay of Pigs Causes
Bay of Pigs Consequences
Cuban Missile Causes
Cuban Missile Consequences
100
What is the capital of Cuba?
Havana
100
How many 'soldiers' were sent to retake the island?
1400 - 1500
100
How many US planes were shot down in the preliminary air strike?
Three
100
The construction of what convinced Khrushchev that Kennedy would not oppose his missiles in Cuba?
Berlin Wall
100
What operation was cancelled after the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Mongoose
200
What was the first item that the US boycotted from Cuba?
Sugar
200
Training for the invasion took place in which country?
Guatemala
200
Why were US ships unable to provide assistance to the attackers?
they had run aground on Coral
200
What did the US call their Naval blockade in Cuba?
Quarantine
200
The radio station of what city announced the end of the Crisis?
Moscow
300
Who were the two leaders of the Cuban Revolution?
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
300
The man in charge of the US operation was?
Allan Dulles
300
How much did Kennedy have to pay Castro in order to get the Cuban prisoners returned?
$53 Million
300
What NW US city was believed to be the only one safe from the missiles in 1962?
Cuba
300
What was installed after the Crisis was over?
A hotline between the White House and the Kremlin
400
Who was the leader of Cuba throughout the 1950's?
Batista
400
Kennedy attempted to hide US involvement as he was sensitive to:
International Condemnantion
400
Where did Khrushchev take Kennedy on over the crisis later that year?
Vienna
400
What was the effective Nuclear advantage of the USA at the beginning of 1962?
27000 to 330
400
What type of Missiles did the USA remove from Turkey?
Jupiter
500
Name one of the mobsters who had lost their Casino's following the Revolution?
Santo Trafficante, Carlos Marcello and Sam Giancarna
500
The invasion took place too far away from fighters in which Cuban mountains?
Escambaray
500
Members of what organisation were the first to fire upon the invading troops?
Cuban Militia
500
What book had Kennedy recently read that convinced him to take a cautious approach in the Crisis?
The Guns of August
500
What was the name of the Soviet Ambassador that Robert Kennedy privately negotiated with?
Dobrynin
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