5/12/2010

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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