AQA GCSE: Cold War Part Three

In which country was there an armed revolution in 1959?

• China

• Yugoslavia

• Cuba

• Nicaragua

Who led the 1959 Cuban Revolution

• Fidel Castro

• Raul Castro

• Fulgencio Batista

• Che Guevara

Who invaded Cuba during the Bay of Pigs?

• FBI backed Cuban Exiles

• The US army

• CIA backed Cuban exiles

• The Vietcong

The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in which year?

• 1963

• 1960

• 1964

• 1962

What was agreed to end the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Cuba would not remain communist

• US ICBMs are removed from Turkey

• Soviet ICBMs are removed from Cuba

• Kennedy would resign as President

Which Warsaw Pact nation would a series of reforms known as socialism with a human face?

• Czechoslovakia

• Yugoslavia

• Bulgaria

• Poland

Who led the USSR during the period of the Prague Spring

• Stalin

• Khrushchev

• Brezhnev

• Lenin

How did Brezhnev respond to Dubcek continuing with the socialism with a human face reforms?

• He agreed with them

• He sent 500,000 troops to invade

• He wrote a stern letter

What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?

• the USSR would not allow the countries of Eastern Europe to reject communism

• The USSR would seek to contain communism

• The USSR would provide financial aid to communist countries

What is detente?

• a period in which tensions between the superpowers increased

• A period in which the tensions between the superpowers stayed the same?

• a period in which tensions between the superpowers eased.