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The Cuban Missile Crisis: the Thirteen Days
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- 1What was the Thirteen days?A period during the Cuban missile crisis when the world was on the brink of nuclear warfare
- 2What happened on the 16th October?President Kennedy was informed that US spy planes had found missile sites on Cuba
- 3What happened on the 20th October ,during the Cuban missile crisis?Kennedy decided against an attack on Cuba, instead ordering a blockade of Cuba
- 4What happened on the 24th October, during the Cuban missile crisis?The USSR said the blockade was an act of aggression and its ships would ignore it
- 5What happened on the 25th October 1962?USA and USSR prepared for immediate nuclear attack
- 6What four things happened on the 27th October 1962?1) Cuba prepared for invasion
2) K. offered to remove missiles if the USA did the same with Turkey and Italy
3) A US spy plane was shot down over Cuba and the 'hawks' demanded retaliation
4) Kennedy set up a deal where A. took missiles out of T. and I. - 7What happened on the 28th October 1962?Khrushchev agreed to withdrawing his missiles from Cuba in return for USA never to attack Cuba and to withdraw its missiles from Italy and Turkey
- 8Why did Cuba feel bitter about the crisis?Although it came out OK, it felt let down by its Soviet allies
- 9Why was the Cuban missile crisis bad for the USSR?They looked weak as no one knew about the USA missile withdrawals
- 10What did the Cuban missile crisis prove?How easily a nuclear war could start
- 11What did the Cuban missile crisis prompt the USA to do?Move a detente- a less stressful, more informed relationship between the USA and USSR
- 12What was the Hotline agreement?This created a direct communication between Washington and Moscow
- 13When was the Limited Test Ban Treaty and what was it?August 1963. Both sides agreed to ban all nuclear weapon testings except for underground tests
- 14When did the USSR catch up with the USA in the arms race?1965
- 15Why must MAD warfare be avoided at all costs?It would be so terrible and destructive
- 16What happened to Khrushchev in 1964?He was forced from power
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- Adam Collinge · Mar 2014
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