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5-12-10

Today I finished my presentation and I think I did pretty well. Then Nate Ohms started his presentation. His was about the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

The HUAC was formed in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty. The chairman of the co

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5/12/10

We are continuing presentations today.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion
Upseppa Island was where the training of the Cuban exiles took place. The Cubans knew that an invasion was coming, but they just didn't know where from. There was a fake landing before the
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5/12/2010

Well I couldn’t open up my F drive so I couldn’t get to my other blogs.

Bay of Pigs

- unsuccessful attempt by CIA trained force exiled Cubans to overthrow Fidel Castro

- we began to recruit anti- Castro Cuban exiles

- Upseppa Island was where the trainin

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May 12, 2010

Bay of Pigs Invasion

tis was in unsuccessful attempt by CIA trained force exiled Cubans to overthrow Fidel Castro.

In April of 1960, the US CIA began to recruit anti-Castro Cuban exiles

this recruiting happened until July of 1960

Upseppa Island was where

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wednesday may 12 2010

Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • US attempt to overthrow Castro...they trained cubans who had left the country...
  • US CIA began to recruit anti-Castro cuban exiles in 1960...
  • The exiles flew B-26 bombers...


HUAC

  • Started in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty...
  • Mart
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Wednesday, May 12th.

bay of pigs invasion..

-was unsuccessful attempt by cia trained force exiled cubans to overthrow castro

-april 1960, cia began to recruit anti castro cuban exiles

-this happened until july of 1980

-upseppa island was where the training of these castro cu

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May 12, 2010

the bay of pigs invasion

known as La Batalla de Girón, or Playa Girón in Cuba

unsuccessful attempt by a CIA -trained force of cuban exiles to invade southern cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of castro

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May 12, 2010

bay of pigs invasion. --

spanish name for the bay of pigs invasion? La Batalla de Giron

Bay of Pigs Invasion- Born in Holguin on August 26 1926 which is the place where Columbus first landed in Cuba. Joined the Partido Ortodoxo which called for a Socia

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5/12/10

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Upseppa Island was where training of anti castro cubans was taking place

specialist training took place at Fort Gullick in Panama and at Fort Clayton in Panama

Infantry training took place at a CIA ran base known as JMTrax

The Exiles

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Wednesday May 12th 2010

McCarthyism was mostly aimed at democrats who were in favor of New Deal programs

Pearson was really putting the pressure on McCarthy

McCarthy not only attacked the flesh and blood, but literature suffered as well

Libraries became increasingly empty as t

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Wednesday May 12, 2010

1. Define the Cold War and it's causes
Political, Stratigic, and ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
-rivalry between Communist USSR and non-communist USA. After alliance was broke from WWII they but heads a lot.
-Split
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Wednesday May 12

today austin finished his presentation on McCarthyism. After austin finished his powerpoint Brian started his on the berlin wall airlift blockade. Germany was split into four zones and controlled by the 4 world powers. Brian talked about the Marshall
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Wednesday, May 12

More Projects.

McCarthyism, continued.
--tried eliminate new deal programs by attacking dems that supported them
--defined: witch-hunts of congress: finding communists in congress
--attacked not only people but literature
--enemies gathering info: several
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Wednesday, May 12th

Cold War project.
1. Define the Cold War and it's causes
Political, Stratigic, and ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
-rivalry between Communist USSR and non-communist USA. After alliance was broke from WWII they but he
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Wednesday May 12

Today in class we continued presentation

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McCarthy cont.

The witch hunts and smear tactics in politics became known as McCarthyism. It was accepted by the people but the political people didn’t likeit. He said that McCarthy had considered killing his m

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Cold War project.
*copied a few lines of notes from Kyla and from Austin Cuddie-Hudson and most from Breann.
1. Define the Cold War and it's causes
Political, Stratigic, and ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
-rivalry be
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May 12, 2010

Berlin was communist in one side, split int ofour districts

goods could only be delivered on ten trains a day

industries hurt, we stopped sending automobiles, etc

berlin was center of attention of america and ussr,

What happens to Germany happens to Euro

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Wed. may 12

McCarthyism-witch hunts in goverment, where they would find false suspects and convict them of crimes-

McCarthy ordered any book that had any communist ties be removed from the shelves-McCarthy was an active homosexual and that ruined a lot of his cre
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wednesday may twelfth

1. Define the Cold War and it's causes
conflict between soviets and US. trumans anti communist act treaty. political, stratigic and ideological struggle between US and ussr.

* WWII created huge rivalry between ussr and us. different philosophy
* germany
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Tuesday 5-11-10

Today Nick is going to continue is presentation on the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Soviets publicly refused to agree to the demand that they would dismantle the weapons, however, the secretly agreed to resolve the crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis ended

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