Wednesday, May 11th

Bay of Pigs

In 2006, Fidel Castro stepped down and his brother, Raul Castro, stepped up.  The bay of pigs invasion was unsuccessful, and many believe that Castro had something to do with the JFK assassination.  The invading Cubans were promised air support by our air force, but JFK wanted it to seem like we had nothing to do with it.  That's a big reason why it failed. 

 

NATO

The US, Canada, and Western European allies.  is a defensive alliance.  Post War Germany was split into four parts, red being soviet union, green being uk, blue italy, and yellow u.s.  Insert picture of Berlin.  US, Britian, and France airlifted supplies and food to West Berlin, and the Soviet Union couldn't do anything without it being an act of war and they didn't want that.  East Germany got desperate to keep it's citizens, so they built the Berlin Wall.

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