Do you know any trivia regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, and who was president at that time? What caused the crisis, and what brought it to a resolution? Who was involved, and what was the result of this crisis, and how many countries were involved? Take on this quiz, and you will learn more about this historical event.
Republican Party
Cuban Independence Party
Cuban Nationalist Party
Cuban communist party
Operation Mongoose
Operation Ortsac
Cuban Revolution
Russian agreeing to buy 5 million tons of sugar from Cuban
A Belgian ship which exploded in Havana harbour
The code name for the overthrow of Batista
A Russian ship which was found to be transporting weapons to Cuba
'Cobra' was the nickname of the plot to remove Castro
Russian, she has sent weapons to Cuba against US wishes
The United States, though there was never any proof
Britain, because she was afraid that her oil interests in Cuba were at stake
Belgium, she was ordered by the US not ship weapons to Cuba and so her captain scuttled the ship at sea
The United Nations for failing to protect Cuba
American oil companies
Yankee Imperialism
Spanish colonialism
The Soviet Union
The United Nations
The Organization of American States
The European Union
This was the code name to be used by the Cuban military in the event of an American invasion
This was the code name given to the invasion of Cuba by the United States
This was a covert plan to secretly place missiles in Cuba by the USSR
This was a plan to get other Latin American countries to invade Cuba
This was a plan to destabilize Cuba
This was a plan to replace Castro with an identical lookalike who would then announce that Cuban would join the United States
This was a plan to blow up power generating stations on Cuba
This was a plan to infect the Cuban sugar crops with insects which would destroy the harvest
There was no air support provided
The CIA had misinterpreted coral reefs for seaweed; the reefs tore open the invasion ships
The Cuban military was much stronger than expected
There was no popular uprising against Castro when the invasion began
Abuc
Ortsac
Hsifgib
Noisavni
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4000
40 000
100 000
There was an increased in shipping traffic and Cuban refugees reported large numbers of Russians
There was increased supplies of aviation fuel being shipped to Cuba
There was a huge container ship that was searched on the way to Cuba by the US Coast Guard; it was found to contain 100 000's of copies of Russian-Cuban dictionaries
Russian baseball teams kept travelling to Cuba, but never going back to Russia......