The Cuban Missile Crisis Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
Q
Castro overthrows US backed Batista regime in the nationalist revolt
A
January 1959
2
Q
Castro introduced programme of Agrarian reform
A
May 1959
3
Q
Soviet First Deputy visited Cuba
A
February 1960
4
Q
Castro seizes $1 billion of assets in Cuba
A
October 1960
5
Q
Kennedy’s Foreign Policy Failures
A
April 1961: Bay of Pigs Fiasco
June 1961: The Vienna Summit
August 1961: The Berlin Wall
6
Q
US Operation Mongoose begins
A
30 November 1961
7
Q
Cuban and Soviet government secretly began Operation Anadyr
A
August 1962
