Bay of Pigs- there were Cubans and Cuban exiles. Castro comes to power and overthrows the leader. Castro develops communism. So the Cuban exiles who fled Cuba when Castro came to power were going to come back and overthrow Castro. The CIA trained them. It didn't work out because all of them were either captured or killed.
Cuban Missal Crisis- It started because we had missals in Turkey and the Soviets had nuclear missals in Cuba. It was a 13 day standoff. The compromise was both of us to take away our missals and same with the Soviets. We promised we wouldn't invade Cuba.
Red Scare (McCarthyism)- is when everyone thought everybody was communist and were scared of becoming communist. People were being put on trial for being communist. The way to get out of it was naming names. McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin. He basically started it the accusing of people. He was also a big liar.
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