Bay of Pigs Invasion
Upseppa Island was where training of anti castro cubans was taking place
specialist training took place at Fort Gullick in Panama and at Fort Clayton in Panama
Infantry training took place at a CIA ran base known as JMTrax
The Exiles calle themselves Brigade 2506
La Batalla de Giron was the spanish name for bay of pigs invasion
The Exiles fle B26 planes that were aquired from the US military stock. there wer 26 bombers.
In 1961 Cubas army possessed a Soviet designed T34 and IS2 tank and Su100 tank
The Cuban security apparatus knew that an invasion was coming because of their secret intelligencs network
also there was loose talk by members of the brigade some which was heard in Miami and repeated un the US and foreign newspaper reports
On March 11, 1961 former Castro ally American William Alexander Morgan was executed.
On April 3, 1961 a bomb attack on militia barracks in Bayamo killed 4 men and injured more
ON the night of Paril 16, 1981, the Bay of Pigs Invasion finally began
there was a mock diversionary landing before the actual invasion took place.
The Cubam militia began to fight back after there navy had been fired and inured quite remarkably since they were only exiles
The invasion lasted 4 days and 176 men were killed in action.
House Committee on Un American Activities (HUAC)
Created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty
The chairman of the committee was Martin Dies
Would question private citizens,, public employees, and other organizations suspected if having communist ties.
HUAC often pressured witnesses to surrender names
HUAC's activities commanded broad popular support
HUAC's questioning style and examination techniques were later used by Senator McCarthy
HUAC thought the threat of Communists in the film was a serious one
in 1947 began investigation the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry
Investigated whether comunists were planting propoganda in US films
The Hollywood ten
the most famous group of blacklisted individuls was known the Hollywood ten
They didnt answer any questions citing the First Amendment
They were jailed by the government and blacklisted by Hollywood
Lucille Ball tested she had briefly been a member of the Communist party in 1936 to please her grandfather
Over 300 actors, writers, directors, etc were blacklisted.
writers continues to work by using pseudonyms
however actors could not change their faces so they could not work
famous blacklisted individuals were Charlie Chaplin, Walter Bernstein, Burgess Meredith, Arthur Miller, and Will Greer
The END of the HUAC
The work of the committee continued to decline in importance throughout the late 1950s
in 1959former president turman said it was the most unAmerican thing in the country today
the committee was renamed the House Internal Security Committee in 1969
Joe McCarthy was born November 14 1908
dropped out of schoool at 14
started back at 20, one year
Tail Gunner Joe was his nickname in WWII
He ran for Senator
Republican
Cmpaigned 1944
Attacked by La Follette
Congress Needs a Tail Gunner
Beat out Howard Murray
popular first 3 years
eventually voted worst US senator currently in office
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