Cold War 1945-1973

Question 1

when was the cuban missile crisis?

Answer 1

October 1962

Question 2

when was the cuban revolution

Answer 2

1959

Question 3

General Batista

Answer 3

right wing dictator who was the leader of Cuba until 1959

Question 4

Who led the Cuban revolution?

Answer 4

Fidel Castro
-became new leader in 1959

Question 5

What ideology did Castro have?

Answer 5

communist

Question 6

Why did Castro become a communist?

Answer 6

due to his friendship and support from Khrushchev

Question 7

sphere of influence

Answer 7

an area in which one nation holds, or claims to hold, dominant power over a country or several countries

Question 8

Where did America deploy nuclear missiles?

Answer 8

Italy and Turkey

Question 9

Where did Soviets deploy nuclear missiles?

Answer 9

Cuba

Question 10

When was Black saturday?

Answer 10

27 october 1962

Question 11

What is Black Saturday?

Answer 11

the day when we were the closest to nuclear war

Question 12

What did the USA own in Cuba?

Answer 12

large consumer of cuban tobacco, sugar and they owned a large naval base

Question 13

trade embargo

Answer 13

official GOVt ban on all US exports and trade with Cuba

imposed by Kennedy

Question 14

How did the trade embargo affect the USA?

Answer 14

cuba turned to the USSR as a market for their sugar

soviet’s were more than willing to comply and before long sent Cuba weapons and oil

Question 15

when was The Bay of Pigs

Answer 15

april 1961

Question 16

what happend at the Bay of Pigs?

Answer 16

CIA landed 1,400 Cuban Exiles at the Bay of Pigs with the aim of provoking an anti communist revolution

Question 17

how many cuban exiles were landed at the Bay of Pigs

Answer 17

1400

Question 18

Result of the 1400 cuban exiles
(Bay of Pigs)

Answer 18

these rebels were easily defeated

20,000 heavily armed Cuban troops captured or killed them all

Question 19

How did the Bay of Pigs affect Kennedy’s image?

Answer 19

made Kennedy look weak and aggressive

Question 20

What did JFK impose to stop USSR missiles from reaching Cuba?

Answer 20

naval blockade

Question 21

What did Khrushchev say in his letters to JFK?

Answer 21

USSR would force way through blockade & was prepared to use nuclear weapons in war

Question 22

Brinkmanship

Answer 22

pushing to the verge of war

Question 23

What did JFK ask Khrushchev to do?

Answer 23

to remove missiles from Cuba

Khrushchev said he would if USA removed missiles from Turkey and didn’t invade Cuba

Question 24

which country received financial aid under the Marshall Plan first?

Answer 24

Greece

Question 24

what was set up after the cuban missile crisis?

Answer 24

a hotline between the white house and the kremlin

Question 24

The Marshall Plan

Answer 24

financial aid given to help suffering countries so that they’re less likely to prey to communism

Question 25

Truman Doctrine

Answer 25

policy of containing communism

Question 26

domino theory

Answer 26

if Vietnam fell to
communism so would all of SE Asia

Question 27

who was the leader of North Vietnam?

Answer 27

Ho Chi Minh
(COMMUNIST)

Question 28

Who was the leader of South Vietnam?

Answer 28

Diem

Question 29

proxy war

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Operation Rolling Thunder

Answer 30

a mass bombing campaign on North Vietnam by the USA

Question 31

Which chemicals were used to destroy the Vietnamese jungle?

Answer 31

napalm
agent orange

Question 32

vietcong

Answer 32

north vietnamese guerilla movement

Question 33

who aided the viet cong?

Answer 33

Ho Chi Minh

Question 34

Operation Search and Destroy

Answer 34

set fire to thatched houses & villages believed to be supporting Vietcong

Question 35

why were guerilla tactics affective against the US?

Answer 35

US conventional high tech methods ineffective

Question 36

why was the US losing the Vietnam war?

Answer 36

US troops were inexperienced
- didn’t understand why they were fighting
Lots of media coverage showed the atrocities
High levels of opposition to the war at hone

Question 37

when did Nixon visit China?

Answer 37

1972

Question 38

What happened in Jan 1973

Answer 38

PEACE TREATY
Vietnam united as communists
Laos and Cambodia also fall from communism

Question 39

when did the USA lift trade embargo’s with China?

Answer 39

April 1971

Question 40

why was truman doctrine significant?

Answer 40

became the cornerstone of US forgein policy for many years to come