Dates Cuban Missile Crisis / VIETNAM UNDEFEATED Flashcards
(28 cards)
When did Castro win his revolution?
January 1959
When does Cuba begin to cheaply purchase oil from USSR?
April 1960
When does USA levy a embargo on cuban sugar following nationalisation of oil refineries?
April 1960
When was the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1,500 cuban exiles?
April 1961
When was Operation Mongoose? (attempts at assassinating Castro)
November 1961
When was Operation Quick-kick with 4000 personel and 79 ships as a show of force?
March 1962
When do U-2 spy planes first photograph soviet missiles in Cuba?
October 1962
When did Khrushchev ship missiles to Cuba after Castro allowed it?
July 1962
When was the hotline created?
June 1963
When were soviet missiles shipped out of Cuba, and missiles shipped out of Turkey?
October 28th 1962
When was nuclear testing banned in the Atmosphere, Ocean or Outer space?
October 1963
When was the Geneva Conference that split Vietnam into 2, promising unifying election?
May-July 1954
When were the French defeated at Dien Bien Phu?
April 1954
When does Ngo Dinh Thuc become Archbishop of Hue?
1960
When did Diem offer South Vietnam to Virgin Mary?
1959
When did Diem launch the Communist Denunciation Campaign, with 90% of the Vietminh being eliminated by 1958?
Mid 1955
When was the NLF formed?
December 1960
When did the USA begin its incredibly resented and unpopular Strategic Hamlet Programme?
Early 1962
2/3 of villages moved by 1964
When is operation Ranchhand launched? (intentional elimination of jungle)
January 1962
When are 16,000 advisors sent to train the ARVN?
Early 1963
When does the ARNV loose the battle of Apbac? (while having an incredibly overpowered force fighting against a far smaller Vietminh side)
January 1962
When is the Bhuddist Crisis?
May 1963
When were Diem, his brothers, and Kennedy assassinated?
November 1963
(Kennedy shot 3 weeks after Diem)
What were the losses at Apbac?
86 ARVN soldeirs
5 Helis
