Friday May 13, 2011

Days before incasion. a couple nights before the invasion we attached airports. we had ships at guantanamo bay to make it look like an invasion.  the cia ran the invasion with permission from JFK. the CIA had recruited cubans. this invasion was set in to oer through fidel castro and his revolutionist. but instead it just made them stronger. certain parts you had to go through to get in or out of the city. eastern bloc dominated by soviets. facist-radical polical ideology socialist state in east germany. west germany had not been de-nazified. death toll between 100 and 200. repsonce-kennedy appointed general lucius d clay ordered berlin airlift. us troops marched from west germany to east headed to west berlin. the convoy arrived in west berlin. east german police watched thim walk by, didn't try to stop them at all. the berlins felt reassured. hungary disabled it's border defences agains austria many east germans escaped through hungary to austria then flooded west germany and frefused to return. prtests broke out in east. peasful revolution. germans gathered at gate, grounds, overwhened.  november 9, 1993 wall not completly torn down. people came with sledghammers, hammers and chleis. more border crossings added. bulldoszers reined old roads. visa free travel on december 23, short sections and watchtowns left as memoralds. german reinification not official until octover 3, 1990.

 

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