Knowledge Check Flashcards

• How far is Florida from Cuba?

  90 miles
• Which historic Doctrine dictated that the US had influence over Cuba?

  Monroe Doctrine
• What year did Fidel Castro return to Cuba?

  1956
• Who was the militarist leader that Castro overthrew?

  Batista
• What year was the Cuban Revolution?

  1959
• Why was Cuba seen as a US economic colony?

  US ownership of sugar, tobacco and oil industries
• At which organisation did Eisenhower ignore Castro?

  UN
• When did the USSR and Cuba officially ally?

  1960
• What was the Operation name for placing Soviet Missiles on Cuba?

  Operation Anadyr
• Which legal reforms did Castro use to seize land and redistribute it, including from some American businesses?

  Agrarian Land Reform
• How many exiles landed in the Bay of Pigs April 1961?

  1500
• What was the name of the brigade involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion?

  2506
• What year was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

  1961
• What was the name of the USA's second attempt to intervene with Cuba?

  Operation Mongoose
• What did Operation Mongoose include?

  Covert operations and assassination attempts
• How many days was the Cuban Missile Crisis

  13 days
• What did the USA do to deal with the presence of Soviet missiles?

  Naval quarantine
• How many Soviet troops were there in Cuba?

  140,000
• Give one short term consequence of the CMC

  Test Ban Treaty, Moscow Hotline, removal of Jupiter missiles
• Give one long term consequence of the CMC

  Nuclear non-proliferation, Sugar reduction
• What year was the Czechoslovakia Crisis?

  1968
• Who won the Czech election of 1946?

  Edvard Benes
• Which Czech Foreign Minister was defenestrated?

  Jan Masaryk
• Which Czech politician demanded a fully communist government and confirmed Czechoslovakia's fall to communism in 1948?

  Klement Gottwald
• Who replaced Khrushchev as leader of the USSR?

  Leonid Brezhnev
• Which President of Czechoslovakia was replaced in early 1968?

  Novotny
• Who became the new president of Czechoslovakia in 1968?

  Svoboda
• What was the Prague Spring?

  Attempted democratic reforms in Czechoslovakia
• What was the name of the new attempt of communism in Czechoslovakia?


  Socialism with a human face
• Why was the economy of Czechoslovakia weak by 1968?

  Workers strikes and lack of economic goods
• Why was the Soviet position weak in 1968?

  New leadership and poor relations with China
• Name two reforms made under the Prague Spring

  Freedom of Press and Freedom of Travel
• How did the Soviets respond to the Czechoslovakia Crisi?

  Attempted to force Dubcek to stop then used force
• Which organisation was used to crush the Czechoslovakian uprising?

  Warsaw Pact - 165,000 troops + 4,600 tanks
• How did the USA react to the Czechoslovakia Crisis?

  They did not intervene
• Why did the USA refuse to intervene in the Czechoslovakia Crisis?

  Wanted to avoid conflict whilst facing issues in Vietnam as well as civil rights?
• Which European eastern bloc country criticised the USSR response to the Czechoslovakia crisis?

  Romania
• How did China respond to the Czechoslovakia crisis?

  They accused the USSR of being counter-revolutionary
• What did France and Italy do during the Czechoslovakia Crisis?

  Broke away from communism and created Eurocommunism
• What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?


  Policy that the Soviet Union had a right to intervene if communism was threatened in another communist nation