Bay of Pigs Invasion;
- CIA trained 1300 people to go in and go against Castro and hoping that everyone else would join in
- Cuba became communist
- The Cubans trained were captured or killed
- When they were captured we were supposed to help them but we backed out.
Cuban Missile Crisis
- Our video
Red Scare and McCarthyism
- 1939-1945
- Communism(red) scare always thought that everyone was a communist
- Accusing everyone for being a communist, and put on trial.
- McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin.
- McCarthy was nuts, gave a speech at woman’s conference about a list he had. Liar.
- A lot of people/movie stars were blacklisted (couldn’t get a job)
- HUAC- To go after people who are communist
Berlin Wall- up and down
- Germany was split into 4 parts. East communist, west democratic.
- To keep them split it up.
- East was fleeing to the West.
- They didn’t WANT to build it because of how it would look
- People may think that they didn’t want to choose communism. Forced to be communist.
- If you were trying to escape they were able to shoot to kill. 100 miles long
- Symbol of Cold war
- 1989 the wall came down
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