Today we finished up songs. I have election results and scandals of Jimmy Carter.
Bay of Pigs - Fidel Castro overthrew the previous leader. They tried to overthrow Castro.
Cuban Missile Crisis - 13 day stand off.
Red Scare/McCarthyism - This was all about the fear of Communism. People were falsely accused of being Communist and tried. Joe McCarthy was the "leader" of all of this!
Berlin Wall (Coming Up and Going Down) - The wall was built to prevent the Eastern Berlin people coming into the Western area of Berlin. There was a gap in the wall where people would try to escape, but if you got caught, you would get shot to death.
Berlin Blockaide-
Korean War/conflict (forgotten war)- Because it was between WWII and the Cold War. North Korea vs. South Korea. China helped the North and US. UK and France helped the south. The north first invades the south because the US pulled the troops out of there to go help Japan. China and the soviet union let them invade so they pushed us down to the tip of south Korea. South Korea then pushes everybody back to North Korea. UN Security council- US, USSR, G.B, France, China-Taiwan(allies with us). General Douglas MacArthur said we should invade China. President Eisenhower campaigns to end this war. They never signed a treaty so necessarily they are still in war. But the war/conflict stopped then. The line between the south and north Korea is known as DMZ. Demilitarized Zone.
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