Monday- worked on song
Tuesday- gone
Wednesday- worked on song
Thursday- watched videos
Friday- watch videos
Notes
First Berlin Crisis
- Break Germany into 4 zones
- Stalin wanted all of Berlin
- Blockades- act of war
- cut off road, rail and canal links with West Berlin, hoping to starve it into submission
- Russia admitted defeat and lifted blockade
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro
- wasn't liked
- made communism start in Cuba
- still alive and not in good health
- now much easier to travel to Cuba
What was it?
- body in water in Cuba
- communist under Fidel Castro
- bonded with Soviet Union?????????
- trained by CIA to invade Cuba
- didnt work
- attempt for US to overthrow Fidel Castro
- everyone knew because of the radios
- surrendered almost right when they got on shore
What were the results?
- we didnt win
- didnt go well
- everyone either captured or killed
- we had to send baby food to get prisoners back
- US navy was suppose to paint planes to look like Cuban planes to try and get prisoners
- didnt want US to have anything to do with it
- asked to get weapons to defend themselves
How did it hurt President Kennedy?
- got killed by Cubans???
Berlin Wall- 1961
First Berlin Crisis
- Break Germany into 4 zones????????
- Stalin wanted all of Berlin
- Blockades- act of war
- cut off road, rail and canal links with West Berlin, hoping to starve it into submission
- Russia admitted defeat and lifted blockade
What was it? Why was it built?
- Stalin blockaded west Berlin
- lots of people tried to leave because they wanted freedom over equality
- soviets didnt want to build a wall because it looks like they try to keep people in
- if people tried to escape they would be killed
- tried to escape underground, off buildings, hot air balloons
What did the USSR want?
Berlin Wall Comes Down- 1989
- Gorbachev comes to power
- SU would no longer interfere with Eastern Europe
Red Scare
USSR's first atomic bomb
- Domino effect
- China fell to communism
Leaders
- Chiang Kai Shek
- nationalist
- we liked him
- Mao Zedong
- big killer
- Great Leap Forward- millions died in China,
- Culture Revolution- making people follow the government, millions died
Chinese Civil War
- War breaks out between Mao and Chiang
- invaded by Japan
- Mao and Chiang worked together and win
- Chiang fled to Taiwan
- Richard Nixon visits China- Detente
- Relationship between US and China got better
Alien Registration Act
- made it illegal to support overthrow of government
- you can talk about overthrowing the government
- required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government
- allowed the government to go after communist and put them in jail
Senator Joe McCarthy
- trying to get rid of communism
- McCarthyism
- he gave a speech saying he had 200 communist in government
McCarthy Downfall
- accused military to be communist without evidence
- he had powers taken away from him
- died 3 years later
House Un-American Activities Committee
- searching for people and actors in Hollywood for communism
- set up hearings to investigate the movie industry
- Hollywood Ten
- each person found to be a communist had to spend a year in prison and pay $1000 fine
Cuban Missile Crisis
- we were scared because they are close to US
The Compromise
- Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba
- US would promise never to invade Cuba
- US would secretly remove nuclear missiles from Turkey within six months
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