History - Cuban Missile Crisis (Revision) - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who was the initial president of Cuba?	Fulgencio Batista	82%
Who was US president in 1961?	John F Kennedy	55%
Did Cuba stay communist?	Yes	55%
Who planned the Bay of Pigs invasion?	President Eisenhower	18%
When did a US U-2 spy plane see ballistic missiles in Cuba?	14th October 1962	9%
How many anti-Castro exiles landed on Cuba?	1500	9%
When did Kennedy organise a meeting of ExComm?	16th October 1962	9%
When did the first Soviet ships reach the blockade?	24th October 1962	9%
Which Soviet First Deputy Premier visited Cuba?	Anastas Mikoyan	9%
When did Fidel Castro return to Cuba after exile?	December 1956	9%
When did he visit?	February 1960	9%
When did Batista's government collapse?	January 1st 1959	9%
When did Castro introduce Agrarian reform?	May 1959	9%
What was the airstrike plan known as?	OPLAN 312	9%
What was the land-based invasion known as?	OPLAN 314	9%
What did Cuba gain from this meeting?	$100 million dollars in Credits from the Soviets	0%
What were the assets worth that Castro seized in October 1960?	$1 billion dollars	0%
When did Kennedy authorise Operation Mongoose?	30th November 1961	0%
How was the Cuban-Soviet relationship?	An economic and political relationship	0%
When did Cuba receive a shipment of Crude Oil from the Soviets?	April 1960	0%
What did this treaty do?	Banned testing in outer space and under water	0%
What happened when US oil companies refused to refine the oil?	Castro nationalised them	0%
What period developed from this point?	Detente	0%
What was a target for America in Cuba before the collapse?	Economic stability	0%
What did the Soviets also provide?	Fighter planes, bombers and 14,000 ground troops	0%
When did Khrushchev send a telegraph to Kennedy?	Friday 26th October	0%
What was the range of the nuclear weapons?	From 1100KM to 2800KM	0%
Who did Kennedy appoint to lead the operation?	General Edward Lansdale	0%
What did Khrushchev effectively want from the telegram?	He wanted a way out of the crisis	0%
What did Khrushchev propose?	If the USA didn't invade Cuba, the Soviets would remove nuclear weapons.	0%
What letter did Kennedy reply to from Khrushchev?	Kennedy replied to the first letter	0%
What terrain were the nuclear weapons placed in Cuba?	Mountains of Cuba	0%
What was the US response?	Reduced imports of Cuban Sugar by 95%	0%
When did Khrushchev agree to remove the missiles and end the war?	Sunday morning, 28th October	0%
What treaty was signed in October 1963?	The Moscow Test Ban Treaty	0%
Why did the Soviets place nuclear weapons in Cuba?	To achieve nuclear parity	0%
What did Castro order on the same day?	To fire at low-level reconnaissance planes	0%
Why did Robert Kennedy meet with Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin?	To inform that Kennedy was willing to remove the Jupiter missiles in Turkey	0%
What did ExComm decide?	To organise a naval blockade	0%
Why did Castro need the support of a great power?	To respond to USA over reducing economic and political influence	0%
What was the aim?	To use covert operations to overthrow Castro from within	0%
What did this reform lead to?	US owned property being seized by the state	0%

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