Cold War
Published on Mar 23, 2016
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COLD WAR
- More than 300,000 East Germans flee to West Berlin and then to West Germany.
- Cuba becomes communist under Fidel Castro.
- Soviet-controlled East Germany divides Berlin with the Berlin Wall.
- 1989 The Berlin Wall falls.
- The Soviet Union breaks up into independent republics; the Cold War ends.
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
- Kennedy announced his plan on October 22, 1962
- Soviet Union would remove missiles from Cuba if U.S agreed to not invade Cuba
- Fidel Castro, was not happy as he was left out of the negotiations between Kennedy
- Soviet union said they would never back down
- Kennedy received a letter of an agreement to avoid war
BAY OF PIGS
- U.S. sent trained cuban exiles to cuba to overthrow castro
- The invasion occured in April 17, 1961
- The invasion force was known as the brigade 2506
- The cuban exiles were trained by the CIA
- The CIA tried to plan theinvasion secretly
