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Friday April 12, 2013

Bay of Pigs Invasion Notes:

  • April 17, 1961
  • Goal: Overtake Fidel Castro and the government because he made his country communist
  • 1300 exiles (with U.S. supplies and weapons) invaded the Bahi’a de Cochinos(The Bay of Pigs)
  • It was evident they were going to
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Friday April 12th, 2013.

today we started working on our project. our topic is Cuban Missile Crisis. my group is Brittany, Alex, Haley and myself.

research:

  • known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis in the USSR — was a 14-day confrontation between the Soviet
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Peaceful coexistence- capitalism and communism had to make peace without war(Nikita Khrushchev)

De-Stalinization- the process of undoing all the bad things that Stalin had done

Détente-(a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a

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Tuesday April 9, 2013 (Test Notes Continued)

  • Iron Curtain Speech – 1946 was given by Winston Churchill, it represents the communist and free in Europe
  • Domino Theory (effect)-  Eisenhower 1950-1980, communism was spreading like dominos
  • Policy of Containment-  containing communism
  • Truman Doctrine- 1
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