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Bay of Pigs
A group of Cuban exiles took off from Nicargua in a squadron of American B-26 bombers, painted to look like stolen Cuban planes and conducted a strike against Cuban airfields. Castro knew anout the riad and moved the planes out of hamrs way.Kennedy began to suspect that the plan CIA had promised would be"both clandestine and successful" might in fat be "too large to be clandestine and too small to be successful. But on APril 17 Cuban exile began its invasion at an isolated spot on the islands -
Bay of Pigs Part 2
Southern known as the Bay of Pigs,Immediately,the invasion was a disaster Castros troops had pinned the invaders on the beach,and the exiles of surrendered cater less than a day of fighting;114 were killed and over 1,100 taken prisioner. Cold War: the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missiles crisis made the Cold War Worse -
Berlin Wall goes up Part 3
and volunteer construction workers had completed a make shift barbed wire and concrete block wall -the berlin wall- the berlin wall stopped the flood of refugees from east to west and it did defuse the crisis over berlin.
ADDITIONAL: the significance of the berlin Wall to the Cold war was the berlin wall was built up during the cold war the pointof the was to have containment. -
The Berlin Wall Goes up
Communist government of German Democratic Republic(GDR or East Germany) built a barbed wire and concrete"Antifascistischer Schutzwall" or "antifascist bulwark", between East And West Berlin.Purpose of The Berlin Wall was to keep western"fascists" from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist atate,but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.WW2 came to an end in 1945, peace conferences determined the fate of Germany's territories -
Berlin Wall Goes up Part 2
(Yalta and Potsdam). In 1948 Soviet blockade of West Berlin aimed to starve the western allies out of the city.United States and allies aupplied their sectors of the city from the air (Berlin Airlift) lasted more than a year and delivered more than2.3 million tons of food and fuel and other goods to West Berlin.In two weeks East Germany army,police force -
US SEnds man to the moon Part 2
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US sends a man to the Moon
John F. Kennedy suggests that the Soviet Union and the United States cooperate on a mission to mount an expedition to the moon. In 1961 Kennedy annouced the determine to win "space race" with Soviets.Russian and AMerican scientist had been competing to see who could make the next breakthrough in space travel. Outer space became another frontier in the cold war. Opponents of the program(space) cited high cost of the proposed trip to the moon estimated at more than 20 billion dollars. -
Six Day War
Israel responds to a build-up of Arabs forces along its borders by lauching simutaneous attacks against Egypt and Syria.Jordan entered the fray,Arab location armed forces.Within Six days of fighting Israel occupied the Gaza strip and the Sinai pennisula of Egypt, the Govan Heights of Syria,and the West Bank and Arab sector of East Jerusalem.When the United Nations cease-fire took effect on June 11, Israel had more than doubled its size.they came in victory by claiming the old city of Jerusalem. -
Six Day War Part 2
from Jordan.
ADDITIONAL: The U.N. kept containment of deter Sinai between 1956 and 1967 and helped Egypt from imposing.The significance of the Six day war to the cold war is the deterioation of which was geopolitics of the cold war. -
1972 BB game part 3
was clear to make a pass down the court to Alevsander Belov who made a layup. U.S.S.R 51 and U.S.A 50 america refused the silver medal offfered to them because they thought they have been cheated a win.
ADDITIONAL: The U.S team did not accept the silver medals,we still havent accepted them.We believe then and believe now victory was taken from them.That Basketball game ended uo as a proxy war between two superpowers -
1972 BB Game Part 2
game, Doug made both shots which made the U.S. go up to 50-49 three seconds left. Soviets put the ball into play made a wild shot at the buzzer and everything got crazy, The referees let the soviets make another inbounds play with one second and the buzzer went off and we'd won again. Then R.Williams Jones the secretary-General of international Basketball Asscioation came out the stands and held up three fingers and came to find out that meant add 3 seconds to the clock.Russian player edeshko -
Olympic Rivalry 1972 BB Game
In the chill of the Cold War,the 1972 U.S basketball team went up against the U.S.S.R and was cheated out of the gold medal.When the game began the Soviets with their deliberate style of play dominated, they led by five points at the half, with ten minutes to play, were ahead by 10 points.WIth six minutes left our team begna to press and hustle,and were down by just one point,Doug Collins had been fouled and was ready to take perhaps the two most important free throws in the history of the.
