NATO:
north atlantic treaty organization
1949, DC
if someone who is attacked who signed the treaty, we could help them
1952- first major NATO maritime exercises began
soviet union wanted to join
france withdrew from NATO
december 1979 we gave europe nuclear arms
organized a lot of organizations and plans for the 9/11 attacks
recently put a no-fly zone over libya
NATO states put a weapon embargo against libya
destalinization- joseph stalin dies and kruchiev comes to power- undoing terrible things that stalin did; being better to the people and not killing innocent ppl
peaceful co-existance- we can all live peacefully together and we wouldn't have to go to war
fidel castro and the bay of pigs:
fidel castro- communist; led cuban revolution in 1959
over threw the cuban dictator
became prime minister of cuba
was sent to jail, got released, and trained in mexico
many people didn't like him
didn't like people who didn't like him
close to the soviet union
got rid of enemies
tried to get a resistance against castro inside and outside of cuba
recruited people who were against castro
cubans got trained by the CIA
the invasion- april 1961
landing on the beach of playa giron
tried to coordinate a diversion
set small boats and crafts that sent out signals
april 17
the night invasion did not work at all
we wanted to get involved but kennedy did not let us because he wanted to maintain low visibility
all of the troops had been killed
kennedy was blamed for the loss
main reason we wanted to invade was to try to stop communism
we spent thousands of dollars for propaganda against castro
bay of pigs was a disgrace to the CIA
nixon's visit to china:
we have an open door policy with china
we all have equal rights to trade with china
february 21, 1972- nixon arrives in china
goal was to get rid of communism during the cold war
stayed in china for one week
met with the leader of china
meetings were kept very secretive
china had been isolated
they had a communist leader
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