HIST 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dealey Plaza
27 Feb 2017
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Of 1500 soldiers, 150 made it back to ship. Cia thought cubans would rise up and join american cause, but this was absolutely not the case. Kennedy"s approval rating skyrockets to 85%, even after bop. Country tended to rally behind president with foreign policy. Aid to numerous fiscal aid packages to the south american countries. After bop, countries became very wary of usa. Attempts to assassinate castro, under cia, numerous times failed. Covert operations to overthrow foreign leaders--comes to be known as. Kennedy"s presidency begins heavily using these operations. Highly illegal in usa, as well as by international law. Feeling as though he did not match up. Problematic that he let the american people down, threatened. Leaked a story that americans could survive a nuclear war to. Navy builds fallout shelter at kennedy"s home in ma-- Discussed berlin, khrushchev takes hardline stance on soviet union, saying the usa needs to get out of berlin.
