too close for comfort

1. We reponded in terms of defense.

2. We didn’t want communism to spread throughout the world.

3. Communism was and still is right in our backyard.

Vietnam War Cuban Missile Crisis

We tried as hard as we could so communism wouldn’t spread

throughout the world.

Children were considered property

of the state

They were taken from their parents,

at gunpoint, at age 4 and were

brought to a military school

They lose most of their rights

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Failed invasion of Cuba

Kennedy took full blame

We tried to stop the growing ties between Khrushchev and Castro so they wouldn’t

attack us. That was the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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