Well I couldn’t open up my F drive so I couldn’t get to my other blogs.
Bay of Pigs
- unsuccessful attempt by CIA trained force exiled Cubans to overthrow Fidel Castro
- we began to recruit anti- Castro Cuban exiles
- Upseppa Island was where the training happened
- The exiles called themselves, brigade
- B 26 trained them
HUAC
- created in 1938
- chairman= Martin Dies
- questioned private citizens
- often pressured
- thought that communism was in Hollywood
- they were jailed by the government and blacklisted by Hollywood
Joe McCarthy
- dropped out of school when he was 14 to help on the farm
- won campaign in 1944
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