NATO
stands for north atlantic treaty organization
was signed in washington DC on April 4 1949
basically all the treaty said was that if one of the other countries get attacks we have to help ward of the attcker(s)
NATO in the cold war
in september 1952 the first major NATO maritime exercises began
soviet union wanted to join NATO
france withdrew from NATO
on decemeber 12, 1979 was (the US) gave Europe Nuclear arms
organized a lot of organizations and plans after the 9/11 attacks
recently put a no fly zone over Libya
NATO states put a weapons embargo against Libya
Libya is people vs. government so we are trying to protect the people with the fly zones
United States Canada, and western Europe are in it now
only a defensive
Destalinization- joseph stalin died and Crushev came to power. Right away he started talking about destalinization. he basically wanted to undo some of the bad things that stalin did. be better to the people. united states and crushev started talking about peaceful coexistance. we can live peaceuflly in the world together even if we dont like eachotehr and not go to a nuclear war. after crushev came to power things started to look pretty good.
Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro was communist. he led cuban revolution in 1959
over threw the cuban dictator
became prime minister of cuba
he had attempted to take over cuba before in 1956
was sent to jail, got released, and trained in Mexico
a lot of people who didnt like castro abandoned their country
he then started to get rid of ministers he didnt trust
put a lot of people in jail for going agaisnt him
had close ties with the soviet union which made the US really not like him
Then the US tried to make a resistance against him
tried to embarass Castro
the CIA had talks with the mafia and crime bosses about the assassination
Richard Bissell drafted a top secret policy; A Program of Covert Against the Castro Regime (JMARC)
they recrutieted a lot of people of anit castro to miami
began infantry training
CIA trained them
invasion took place on april 1961 cuban exiles launched it
landing on the beach Playa Giron
we wanted to make it look like the cubans were trying to take back their country from a crazy dictator
during night of invasion.
set small boats and crafts that sent out signals and souds for a possible invasion
1400 cubans landed at sunrise
we also dropped troops in Jocuma and Horquitas for two days
by the end of the day, the communists had found and killed osvaldo ramirez- important cuban leader
Kenndedy was informed that we were doing terrible
kenedy wanted to maintina low visibility
within 72 hours of the invasion all the troops had been killed wounded or surrendered
kennedy took the blame for the loss
bissell resigned from the CIA
the main reason american tried this invasion was to try to stop the communism close to home
we feared that fidel may intercept some of the raw matericals being imorted into the country
another fear was that they might have spread their communism to latin america
The US spent thousands of dollars on US propoganda against Fidel Castro
When we couldnt stop Cuba in continuted to be linked to the Soviet Union which may have led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nixon's Visit to China
Today the US as well as other foreign countries have an open door policy with china
this means that everyonoe has equal rights to trade with China
this wasnt always the case though
February 21st 1972 president nixon arrived in china
he was the first president to visit peoples republic sinve it was established in 1949
our goal was to try and get rid of communism during the cold war
nixon stayed in china for one week
nixons secretary of staqte william rogers was not allowed in on the metting with Mao
only other american let in was nixons body guard
china had been isolated. then communist Mao Zedong took control
since china had a communist leader we really didnt want to get involved with them
if chinda he not gone the route of being communist there would have been no war in Korea or Vietnam
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