Q.1
Which US government agency co-operated closely with anti-Castro Cuban exiles attempting to invade the island in 1961?
  • The FBI
  • The CIA
  • The State Department
  • The Pentagon
Q.2
Who was the U2 pilot, who was captured and put on trial in 1960?
  • Gary Powers
  • Buzz Aldrin
  • Douglas MacArthur
  • Arnold Whitman
Q.3
Which East German leader ordered the building of a wall to divide West Berlin from the Eastern Soviet Sector?
  • Willi Stoph
  • Otto Grotewohl
  • Walter Ulbricht
  • Erich Honecker
Q.4
At which battle in 1961 were anti-Castro exiles forced back into the sea when they tried to invade the island?
  • Moncada Barracks
  • The Bay of Pigs
  • Guantanamo Bay
  • Havana
Q.5
Which Soviet leader approved the wall's construction and promised to defend it with military force in 1961?
  • Malenkov
  • Kosygin
  • Brezhnev
  • Khrushchev
Q.6
Which close associate of Fidel Castro hailed from Argentina and had trained as a doctor?
  • Raoul Castro
  • Ernesto "Che" Guevara
  • Juan Peron
  • Hugo Chavez
Q.7
Which pro-American dictator was forced into exile by Castro's success in taking over Cuba?
  • Batista
  • Frei
  • Stroessner
  • Kubishek
Q.8
Which Republican politician served as Eisenhower's Vice President from 1956 to 1960?
  • Richard Nixon
  • Henry Kissinger
  • Gerald Ford
  • Henry Cabot Lodge
Q.9
How was the American U2 spy 'plane shot down over Soviet Russia in 1960?
  • By conventional anti-aircraft fire
  • By intercepting Soviet fighter 'planes
  • By surface to air missile
  • By unmanned drone
Q.10
Who served as Kennedy's Vice-President from 1961?
  • Walter Mondale
  • Bobby Kennedy
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • George McGovern
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