Berlin Blockade... Jackie Casebeer
It started June 24, 1948. It ended on May 12 of 1949. The main cause of the Berlin Blockade was the Cold War. The Cold War was just getting started. The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to clock allied access to the Germany city of Berlin in 1948 and 1949. It was a failure for the Soviet Union. Stalin ordered the Berlin Blockade. This sudden and unexpected move led to the Berlin Blockade. He did not want anyone to go in or come out. The city of Berlin was split into four different zones, just like Germany was.
The Berlin Airlift was the biggest humanitarian airlift ever taken by the air force. Over 2.3 million tons of supplies were flown into Berlin in over approximately 10 months. It was mainly a solution to the supplies problem during the Cold War. They sent over fuel, food and other essential goods. The Berlin Aiflift was successful for the US.
NATO… Megan Schwery
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) It was started when the Soviet Union started becoming a bigger threat to us in Germany. The Treaty of Brussels was an expansion of peace between Britain and France and was signed in 1948. Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and United Kingdom all signed the Treaty. They wanted the US to sign it so they would have a stronger military force. NATO gave military support to all the people that signed the North American Treaty. NATO was a defensive military alliance. The countries still had the ability to get involved.
Last Friday I was gone so I didn’t get any notes so I copied Shelbie’s so I would have something to study from…….……
Today Alex finished his presentation. One cause of the Cold War was trust; Russia didn’t trust us because we bombed Japan a lot. We also didn’t do what Stalin wanted in WWII. We were in Africa while in Russia they were losing hundreds of thousands of people and could have used our help. Russia was trying to make Western Europe and parts of Germany communists.
Chelsea went next. 1961 shortly after Kennedy became president is the time this took place. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs is her topic. Fidel Castro was a member of the Orthodox Party. Cuba had still been controlled by the US, and people like Fidel Castro were sick of it. When he became the dictator he didn’t allow voting, he took land from people, he was basically a communist. He promised democracy but he actually brought communism to Cuba.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was supposed to be against Castro. The air strike failed and the whole attack was not successful. We thought the Cuban people would like us trying to take out Castro and go along with the US, but they saw it as an invasion and us as the bad guys. Castro gained more support after the invasion. The Bay of Pigs is a bay off of Cuba. The CIA trained Anti-Castro Cubans to invade and take out Castro and the Cuban government. Anything Cuban now is not allowed in the US because of the embargo from this time. Fidel Castro 1959-2008 was their leader, his brother is now leader. The US couldn’t allow Cuba to be communists because Cuba is very close to the US. That’s why the US wanted to invade them to take them out, but the invasion didn’t work. Castro became very close with the Soviet leader, Nikita.
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After the US invaded Cuba, Cuba asked Soviets to bring in nuclear missals to Cuba, so they could attack first if they needed to.
Sam went next and his topic is the Policy of Containment, The Iron Curtain Speech, The Marshal Plan, and The Truman Doctrine. George Keenan created it, it was just the US wanting/trying to contain communism. The Iron Curtain Speech was said by Churchill. It was a term he used for separation of Eastern and Western Europe. He gave this speech in Missouri. The Marshal plan was the US program to create a better economy for Western Europe. The US spent billions of dollars rebuilding countries like Japan, West Germany, and other countries because we didn’t want the communists to take them over. The Truman doctrine was a term used in Cold War strategies, to contain communism. The Doctrine gave military aid to Greece and Turkey, we thought communism would spread there so we helped them. The Domino Theory was used by US, believed if country next to Communist country would become communist other countries around that country would become Communist. This brought on the Policy of Attainment.
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