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Captain Dubivko and 1st Officeer Kopeikin
How are important USSR seamen in Red November and the Cold War?
100
Lieutenant William (Bill) J. Reed (the author's father)
Who are famous American seamen who played an important role in Red November?
100
On April 11, 2015, the two leaders of the USA and Cuba shook hands for the first time and restored connections since their diplomatic ties were severed in 1961.
What is the trade relationship between Cuba and the USA today?
100
"The crew's health deteriorated rapidly, given poor personal hygiene and constant exposure to humidity, high temperatures, and diesel fumes. Most suffered from painful rashes or oozing skin ulcers."
What were conditions like on submarines during the Cold War?
100
"The first book to take readers deep inside all four of these programs (Holystone, Ivy Bells, Boresight, and Bulls Eye) and reveal firsthand details about the harrowing events that veterans have been reluctant to discuss."
What is Red November?
200
After establishing diplomatic ties and an alliance with this country, Cuba became dependent on their markets and military aid.
What was the relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union?
200
The US had recently severed diplomatic ties with this country due to their trade treaty with the Soviet Union and a government considered too anti-American.
What was the relationship between the US and Cuba during the Cold War?
200
At the moment Russia and the USA have minimal relations and remain civil, simply tolerating the other.
What is the relationship between the USA and Russia today?
200
Soviet Foxtrot Subs, USS Drum, USS Seawolf
What were 3 famous nuclear submarines involved in the Cold War?
200
John F. Kennedy
Who was the president during the part of the Cold War Red November focused on?
300
After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and placement of US missiles within range of Moscow, the Soviet Union agreed to send missiles to Cuba in order for the Cubans to avoid future harassment.
Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba?
300
"Secretly, these ships also unloaded several Komar-Class missile-firing patrol boats designed to thwart ambitious landings, which Gorshkov warned could happen within weeks if the Americans discovered nuclear missiles in their backyard."
What is the information the Soviet Union kept from the US?
300
Along with being used for war, submarines have been beneficial to the observations of marine biologists.
What is the use of submarines today?
300
"They propelled the navy's quest for stealth platforms with greater endurance and range, which could only be accomplished with atomic-powered engines."
What was the importance of submarines in the Cold War?
300
A way of pinpointing the location of a ship or submarine by determining the direction of its radio transmissions...stands for high frequency direction finding (HFDF)
What is a huff duff?
400
With missiles in Turkey, the threat the US posed on the Soviet Union became more prominent with Moscow in such close range. The missile placement was also the boldest action thus far in the Cold War.
What is the USSR's opinion on the USA's missiles in Turkey?
400
"Turkey is an important part of NATO and has always welcomed US military and technical assistance. In 1959 the United States maintained several strategic stations throughout that country."
Why did the US place missiles in Turkey during the Cold War?
400
Because the Cubans wanted to escape communism and instead live in a democracy, the USA granted them special immigration rights which could lead to a citizenship. However, recently debates have sparked about whether or not the Cubans should be allowed these special rights over other immigrants.
What is the immigration policy between Cuba and the USA?
400
This technique for submarine warfare used sound waves to find and communicate with objects underwater such as a vessel. "After the war, in 1960, the Soviet's switched to a new type of ultra-short burst signal that they adopted from recovered German technology."
What is SONAR?
400
USS Nautilus (SSN-571)
What was the first ever nuclear submarine?
500
The USSR believed that they did all the grunt work of fighting against the Nazis while the US and Britain swooped in last minute to claim the glory of victory.
What is the reason tensions built between us and the USA, leading to mistrust?
500
Forced together due to a common enemy during WWII, the Soviet Union and the USA formed an alliance. However when the fighting seized the two power houses had very different opinions on world politics. The two different types of government used by the countries were near opposite each other.
What is the effect the differences in government had on the USA's and USSR's relations?
500
"Each missile could hit targets as far away as San Francisco, California, and packed more than 60 times the destructive force that leveled Hiroshima."
What is the potential effect launched missiles from Cuba would've left?
500
Diesel ships only allowed the submarines to stay under for 3-4 hours at a time before surfacing, while the advanced nuclear technology increased that duration. Nuclear submarines were also able to inflict more damage to the enemy than before.
What was the effect of the change from diesel to nuclear submarine warfare during the Cold War?
500
"The first indication that the USSR might be lying about sending nuclear arms to Cuba came on September 18 when, off the coast of Tunis in the Mediterranean, a U.S. Navy frigate confronts a Russian merchant ship and inquired about its cargo. The ship reported that she was carrying only agricultural machinery. Binoculars aboard the frigate indicated otherwise, as the deck was covered with large crates of irregular sizes, which appeared to be the kind that carried disassembled military aircraft."
How did the USA know the USSR was lying about sending missiles to Cuba?