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Berlin Wall

• 1961 the Soviets built the wall.
• They didn't want to because they didn't want people to turn away from Communism
• It was built to keep people on the Soviet side (East Berlin). 
• There was a piece of land in between the two areas and there were

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Plane flew into the sky and saw Cuba building missiles 
• lasted 13 days 

The Berlin Wall

• 1961 the Soviets build the wall 
  • but they didn''t want to because nobody likes the communist but they had to have people stay
  • People wanted to be f

my group presents

Berlin wall falling down

• Soviet Union did not want to build the wall because they thought that this was a sign of weakness 
• they thought people would pick communism but no one 
• people tried to escape over the wall but were shot down by

today we shared some more projects. we also talked about each topic

Cuban Missile Crisis
• 13 day crisis
• Cubans are thinking we are going to invade them
• We can’t let nuclear missiles in Cuba its just to close
• The first official act we put a quarantine on Cuba
• Blockade Cuba
• The first thing we would do was go o

We continued presenting our song projects and took notes about the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall, and the Korean War (my topic). 

Cuban Missile Crisis

- Soviet missiles in Cuba

- 13 day crisis

- averted when Soviets agreed to remove missiles from

Cuban Missile Crisis-

• 13 day crisis- 1962
• Bay of Pigs happened and Cuba asked for Soviet Union to bring them missiles because they thought we would invade them
• We put a quarantine (blockade) on Cuba
• Agreement- Cuba takes their missiles out if we pledge t

Presented projects.

People started presenting their songs and projects. Kept continuing until we were done with this topic. Obviously.

1. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War? Stop the spread of communism

2. What were some of the major events that took place

Absent

today our group presented our project on the Berlin block-aid and airlift and talked about McCarthyism and the bay of pigs

Berlin Blockade/airlift - Red Scare - Bay of Pigs - Cuban Missle Crisis = Notes for the day

Started Presentations of Cold war songs

NOTES:

1. What were the goals for the US during the Cold War?

Wanted to promote open markets for US goods to prevent another depression

Promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa

Stop the spread of communism

2. What were some of

We started our presentations... 

we did our presentation on Berlin Blockade 

Bay of Pigs- Fidel Castro had a revolution in Cuba and became communist. Cuban exiles invade Cuba who were trained by the CIA. We made it look like a civil war. It was not suc

We started off talking about forum post.

Berlin Blockade
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis

Red Scare

Berlin Wall

Korean Wall

Vitenam

Notes

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Today we did presentations on the Cold War. 

Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Blockade was the Soviets surrounded Berlin and wasn't allowing supplies in
• Neither US or Soviets wanted war
• US didn't want to fight through the blockade to give supplies, so they droppe

Today we started presentations.

Cold War - A political, strategic and ideological struggle between the US and Soviet Union.  Spread throughout the world-Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 1945-1990

Democracy - The citizens vote for the leaders.  

Germany was split into four

in 1948 the three western controoled zones of Germany's(US, France, UK) were united and grew in prosperity due to marshal aid

 the west wanted the east to rejoin, but stalin feared it would hurt soviet security.

in June 1948,