Cuban missile crisis (1962)

• What year did Fidel Castro take power in Cuba?

  1959
• how did Castro take power?

  Cuban revolution
• What did Castro do to the land and industry?

  Nationalised it and used the money for the Cuban people
• How did the Cuban revolution make the Americans feel?

  Angered America
• What did America do in retaliation?

  cut all ties with Cuba and refused to trade with them
• What Was americas aim in refusing to trade with Cuba?

  so their country’s economy will collapse and give America their land back
• due to americas refusal to trade with them , who did Cuba become allies with?

  Soviet Union
• What was the agreement between soviet union and Cuba?

  • Russia would get sugar
  • Cuba would get economic aid and oil
  • Cuba agreed to take Russian Nuclear weapons
• What year was the bay of the pigs?

  April 1961
• How many ex-Cuban exiles invaded Cuba during the bay of pigs?

  1400
• what did JFK believe the people of Cuba would do during the bay of pigs?

  he believed the people would rejoice and help the invaders take power
• How did the Cubans react to the bay of pigs?

  They fought back
• Why did the Cubans fight back against invaders?

  They preferred life with Castro in power
• Why did Cubans like Castro?

  He built them hospitals and schools. gave them more freedom
• how did they bay of pigs end?

  failure and embarrassment for America
• what did the attack drive Cuba to do?

  Strengthen their relations with the ussr
• What sparked the Cuban missile crisis?

  Cuba kept Russian nuclear weapons on their land
• What did JFK think about Cuba housing missiles?

  saw it as a major threat against the USA
• How did Khrushchev send the missiles to Cuba?

  By boat
• What did Kennedy do to stop Khrushchev getting to Cuba?

  Put a ring of USA boats around Cuba known as quarantine
• Why was the quarantine such a clever idea?

  Put the power to start war in Russians hands
• How long did the negotiations in the Cuba missile crisis last?

  13 days
• What was decided in the negotiation?

  Russia would take their nukes off Cuba if America took theirs off turkey
• what was the condition that America agreed because of?

  Keep the reason for the nuclear removal a secret
• what did America keeping it a secret do?

  Made America look like they had won
• Why did Khrushchev loose power just under two years later?

  The Cuban missile crisis made him look weak and like he had submitted to capitalism
• what did Kennedy broadcast to America?

  About the potential threat of the ussr
• what did Khrushchev issue a stammer saying?

  He would use nuclear weapons if he had to
• kennedy wrote to Khrushchev saying what?

  asked him to remove missiles from Cuba
• Famous quote—

  “We were eye ball to eye ball with them and the other guy blinked” - American official