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When and where did the USA first use their atomic bomb?

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6th august 1945- japan

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When did the USA enter the war and why?

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USA entered the war because their base at pearl harbour was attacked by the Japanese

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When did Germany invade Russia and why were they surprised by the German invasion?

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22nd July 1941, Russia didn’t expect Germany to Attack as the two countries signed a piece of treaty

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Why did the USA Use asecond bomb on Japan?

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Because the Japanese hadn’t surrendered yet

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When did the Russian soldiers win their first battle against the Germans?

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November 1942

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When it did Russian soldiers reach Berlin

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April 1945

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Why do you think America was keen to try out the new atomic bomb?

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It was new technology and they wanted to try out, so they wanted to the test on Japan to see whether it would be effective to Germany

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Why might people of criticised America’s decision to use the atomic bomb?

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Hiroshima was an innocent country and people didn’t like the fact American soldiers tested it on them also some people might have been jealous of the equipment that had

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It’s after World War II Russia wanted to take control of Germany. Why do you think that they wanted to do this?

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So they can have all The land and take over the industry

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How do you think Russia felt About America using the atomic bomb?

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They would have felt threatened in case Americare use it on them

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How do you think the relationship between Russia and America will develop after 1945?

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It will be more confrontational because they wouldn’t forget what happened the race to Berlin, And the Russians would be more competitive and jealous of Americas technology

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What problems might there be after World War II?

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All the countries are now going to try and compete and match everything and the tension will continue

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What does the USSR stand for?

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Union Soviet Socialist Republic

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Define the word capitalism

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Capitalism is a type of community that is where the harder you work the more you gain for example a doctor gets paid more to spend because they would of spent their whole life training to be a doctor, it’s a lot fairer

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Define communism

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Communism is where everything is fair so everyone gets the same amount whatever the amount of hard work they put in

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The press radio and TV are owned by and controlled by the government is this communism or capitalism?

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Communism

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Private individuals and companies own farms, factories and shops, communism or capitalism ?

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Capitalism

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What was the wartime alliance?

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Where Russia, USA and UK came together to try and defeat Hitler - Germany

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Name the leaders of USA ,Russia, UK and Germany in 1941?

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Roosevelt-USA
Churchill-uk
Hitler-Germany
Stalin-Russia

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Name strengths of the wartime alliance?

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  • with all their money together they have enough money to buy weapons and equipment.
  • they can share each others resources
  • they are all against Hitler
  • it will help all the countries in the long run
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Name some weaknesses of the wartime alliance

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  • when Hitler is gone, they will still be at war with each other
  • they will know each of the strengths and weaknesses so when do have to start turning on each other it will make it easier for them to attack
  • None of them trust each other, it’s all pretend during the war
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When was the Yalta conference?

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1945

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USSR agreed to join the war against Japan once Germany had been defeated, true or false

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True

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The Berlin would be divided into four sections, true or false

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True

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When was the Potsdam conference?

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1945

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What were the three decisions to be made at the Potsdam conference?

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  • what shall they do about Germany
  • reparations payments
  • soviet policy in Eastern Europe
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Which three decisions did they agree on?

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They didn’t agree on any decisions so things got worse

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Why did the Alliance begin to break down in 1945?

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Because of

  • trust issues
  • Truman was very anti communist
  • actions by ussr
  • change in personalities
  • Stalin began more confident
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Who became priminister of the Uk after Churchill ?

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Atley

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Who became priminister of the USA after Roosevelt died?

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Truman

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What else was discussed at the Potsdam conference?

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  • USA and uk didn’t like the idea of the ussr taking over all eastern countries
  • put all natzi criminals on trial
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Name other communist leaders?

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  • Stalin

- marshal Tito

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What countries did stalin gain control over?

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  • Poland
  • chezchoslovakia
  • Yugoslavia
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What helped control these countries?

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The red army

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What was statins tactic to gaining control of countries?

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Prey on the weak, struggling countries and use violence. The secret police and red army helped him

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Define coalition

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A temporary friendship/alliance. It usually refers to different political parties joining together to form a government.

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What was the German democratic republic?

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The official name for the sector of the Germany that was controlled by the ussr after ww2 until 1990. It was usually called east Germany. Don’t he fooled by the ‘democratic’ part -it was very much communist between 1945-1990

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define resistance

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Refusal to accept something, usually change.

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Define the term rigged

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When an election is done unfairly, for example votes are changed or people are intimidated into voting for a particular party

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Define royalist

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A person who supports the monarch

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What is the red army?

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The army of the ussr

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Define cominform

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The communist information bureau co-ordinate the work of the communist party

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Define monarchy

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When a country is ruled by a king or queen

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What did the red army do?

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-gave people hope and support
-they freed the natzi operated countries
The red army were kept in most countries, people thought the red army were there to help, but the weren’t

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What did the secret police do?

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They imprisioned anyone who supposed communism

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When did the Soviet Union gain control of the eu?

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1948

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Why do you think the eu became communist so simply ?

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Because they were weak as countries and needed some leaders

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What was the ‘iron curtain’

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It was used as a metaphor to demonstrate how Stalin divided countries. The idea of people not being able to see into the countries and know what’s going on. It was strong and Stalin wasn’t letting anyone know what was going on.

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Who used the phrase ‘iron curtain’?

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Churchill

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What were the two groups in Greece?

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The monarchists and communists

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What did the Greek monarchists want?

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The kind of Greece to come back into power

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What did the Greek communists want?

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Wanted Greece to be a soviet rebublic

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Why did people think that the British troops sent into Greece?

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To help restore order and to supervise the free elections

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What was the real reason?

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To help bring the king back into Greece and restore power

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When were the troops sent onto Greece?

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1945

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Why did the ussr protest to the United Nations in 1946?

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Because they felt that the British troops were a threat to peace in Greece

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In what year did Britain pull out of the war?

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1947

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Why did they withdraw?

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Because they couldn’t afford it

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Who payed for Britain to stay in the war?

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Truman

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Why do you think Truman did this?

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He needed back up against communism, and Britain could help him.

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By 1950 who becomes in power of Greece?

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Royalists

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Why did Americas attitude change when the communists took over chezchoslovakia?

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Chezchoslovakia had previously been ruled by a coalition government, who had been trying to enforce independent policies in Moscow

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What was the Truman doctrine?

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Sending money and equipment to any country which was threatened by communist take-over.

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What was the marshal plan?

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In aid to help the countries economy. Gave them food, coal,

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Why did Truman believe the marshal plan was a good idea?

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He believed countries were more likely to take on communist takeover when they were in Poverty.

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Who did Truman send to research into the economies of countries?

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George marshal

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What were Stalins views and reactions to these?

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  • he forbade any Eastern Europe country from applying for marshal aid
  • he felt the USA were trying to dominate as many countries as possible
  • he thought marshal aid would weaken his power over the ee
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What is the Berlin blockade?

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Stalin blocked all the roads e.t.c so nobody anti communist could leave. People began to leave because they wanted marshal aid.

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Why did he do it?

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Because anti communists began to leave. Trizonian was ganging up on him.

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Who was part of the Trizonia?

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France, Britain and USA

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What was the doucshe mark?

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The trizonian wanted to create a new economy because a lot were being ruined

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How did Britain and the USA overcome Stalins blockaid?

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They flew planes over with supplies of food and equipment.

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Why did the USA not give in to Stalin?

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Because they wanted to show him how serious they were about containment.

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When did the blockade of Berlin end?

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1949

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Who ended it?

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Stalin

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Why did he do it?

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Because it became clear that the western allies wouldn’t give up Berlin whilst he had it.

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What was the Warsaw Pact?

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A defence group with Poland, bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Hungary, and East Germany.

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What was NATO?

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Was a treaty organisation of consequence of the Berlin blockade. Was the uk, canada, Norway, Iceland, Netherlands & France.

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When was the Warsaw Pact made?

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1955

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When was NATO made?

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1949

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Name the order of events from the yalta conference to the Berlin blockade.

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  • yalta 1945 feb
  • Potsdam 1945 August
  • Russia took over Poland - 1947
  • Greece
  • USA payed for Britain to stay in the war
  • bizonia USA and Britain
  • Trizonia USA, Britain and France
  • marshal plan
  • Berlin blockade
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Who was the leader of Cuba?

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Fidel Castro

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When did Castro take control?

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1959

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When Cuba removed all American companies, what did America do?

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They refused to buy sugar from them and stopped buying oil from them

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What did the USA do when the CIA offered an invasion plan to remove Castro from Cuba?

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The diplomatic nations were broken of with Cuba. The plan was to use Cuban exiles to over throw him

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How did Cuba become a threat to the USA?

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The old American backed leader was removed by Fidel Castro, he was communist and Castro was trading and working with ussr

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What was the bay of pigs?

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An invasion to hopefully remove Castro

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Why did Kennedy want Castro gone?

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Kennedy didn’t want a communist country so close to the USA I case yeah spyed on them

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Why did they use Cuban exiles rather than American ones ?

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Because the Americans would die and that wouldn’t benefit the USA

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Why did the invasion fail?

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  • coral-the bay of pigs was surrounded by coral reef. This had shown up on a spy plane.
  • castors army - Castro knew in advance that the invasion was likely. Castro assembled a well equipped army of 20,000 men ready to meet the invaders
  • supplies- the Americans tried to parachute extra supply’s to the invasion force but they were dropped into a swamp and into an army base loyal to Fidel Castro
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When did Khrushchev become in power?

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1953

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