Today we continued with our music video project.
-Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Castro comes to power in Cuba, and establishes communism
- Nixon’s plan= CIA trained Cubans to go in and overthrow Castro
- The Cuban people didn’t join in the fight
- Hoping the Cuban people would join in
- The Cubans were captured and killed
-Cuban Missile Crisis
- We had just done the Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Spy plane flew over Cuba
- 13 day stand off
- Compromise= the Soviets would take their missiles out of Cuba and we would take our missiles out of Turkey and never invade Cuba
-Berlin Wall
- Separated in two sides
- Communist (East) and democrats (West)
- Built to keep people out easterners were coming in to the west
- Soviets didn’t want to build a wall because it would build more tension
- Thought people were going to choose communism
- If you got into west Berlin you were free
- If you escaped the wall they would get killed
- Before the wall was built it was easy to go from east to west
- 100 miles long with barbed wire on the top
- Symbolized the Cold War
- Came down because communism was over
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