Cuban Revolution
Leader of the Communist Revolution in Cuba who led the country for nearly 60 years afterwards.
Who is Fidel Castro?
President of the United States during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Leader of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
Ideology that focuses on individual ownership of goods and means of production.
What is capitalism?
The country to first develop atomic weapons.
What is the United States?
This man was considered to be totalitarian dictator by Fidel Castro and his group, and was overthrown in 1959.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
Director of the CIA at the time of the invasion.
Who is Allen Dulles?
This was used to first spot the Soviet missiles in Cuba.
What are U-2 Planes.
Ideology that focuses on the collective or state ownership of goods and the means of production.
What is communism?
What is World War 2?
Leader of the Communist Revolution in Cuba who later died in the Bolivian jungle; his face printed on a shirt was a fashion statement for some time.
Who is Che Guevara?
Who are the Cuban Exiles?
Instead of calling the naval blockade around Cuba a blockade, the US Government called it this to avoid war.
What is "quarantine"?
Alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western European countries to combat communism.
Idea that possessing nuclear weapons will prevent attacks from other countries because of the fear of nuclear retaliation.
What is deterrence?
This country is the home of many businessmen who came to Cuba to buy land and businesses; ended up owning practically the entire economy of Cuba
What is the United States?
The original location that was planned to be the landing site for the invasion.
What is Trinidad, Cuba?
The political position of John F. Kennedy's brother at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the Attorney General?
Alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations to fend-off capitalism.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Because the Soviet Union lacks in deposits off uranium, they had to use this to get information about nuclear weapon.
What is espionage/spying?
This country was the birth place of Che Guevara.
What is Argentina?
After a deception flight to throw the Cuban military off the trail of who bombed their airfields, the pilot landed at this location.
What is Miami, Florida?
The Cuban Missile Crisis put the United States at this level of awareness.
What is DEFCON 2
This country fell to communism after a Civil War in 1949.
What is China?
The largest bomb ever detonated in history.
What is the Tsar Bomba?