1. March 8, 2017
Global II Agenda:
DO NOW: Multiple Choice Review
NOTES #37: What major Cold War conflicts occurred in Latin America?
COLD WAR TEST TOMORROW

2. What major Cold War conflicts occurred in Latin America? Notes #37

3. Cuban Revolution leader
During the Cold War, Cuba adopted communism as a result of the Cuban Revolution in
Cuban Revolution leader
Che Guevara

4. . . . and new communist leader Fidel Castro gained power in Cuba because he promised better living standards for the Cuban people.

5. Captured CIA agents after the failed invasion
In 1961, the U.S. tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion, but failed to do so.
Bay of Pigs invasion
(1961)
Captured CIA agents after the failed invasion

6. Castro with Soviet Union leader
In response, Cuba allied itself with the Soviet Union for protection from the U.S
Castro with Soviet Union leader
Nikita Khrushchev

7. . . . and the Soviet Union began setting up nuclear missiles in Cuba.

8. When this was discovered by the U. S
When this was discovered by the U.S. in 1962, it enforced a naval blockade around Cuba and demanded the Soviet Union remove their nuclear missiles.
U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
(1961 – 1963)

9. Kennedy meeting with Khrushchev in 1961
This Cuban missile crisis was solved in 1962 when the Soviet Union removed its nuclear missiles from Cuba after coming to an agreement with the U.S.
Kennedy meeting with Khrushchev in 1961