Today was another presentation day.
Nato
-It said that any country that was involved that got attacked we would help out
-It was basically to help put and end to communist spreading
-soviet union wanted to join nato
-the US gave Europe Nuclier Arms
-France eventually pulled out of Nato
-Recently put a n-fly zone over Libya
-NATO states put a weaons embargy agianst Libya
Destalinization
-Basically undoing what stalin did
-Cruschev comes to power (Stalin Died)
-peacefull coexistance- living in the world together peacefully
Fidel Castro/ Bay of Pigs
-Communist
-Led cuban Revoluion in 59
-over threw the cuban dictator
-because prime minister of cuba
-he had attempted to take over cuba before in 59
-he went to jail then was released
-250,000 poeple fled the country because they didnt like castro
-tried to get rid of anybody he didnt like
The Invasion
-the US tried to put resistance in and outside of cuba
-also tried to embarrase him
-the US also talked to mob bosses to try to get rid of Castro
-the Invasion took place in the Bay of Pigs in south cuba
-the US tried to create diversion to get the cubans to not be ready for the invasion
-the communist did kill Osvaldo Ramirez- one of main cuban revolution leader
-in the days after it was an Embarassment for JFK becuase the invation was a faliure
Nixon's visit to china
-Open Door Policy
-everybody had the right to trade in china
-went of Febuary 21 72
-first president to visit the poeples republic
-our goal was to eliminate communism in china
-Mao Zedong and Nixon met and nobody els but his body guard
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