HISTORY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fidel Castro, Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall
14 Jun 2016
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The iron curtain separates capitalist western europe form the communist eastern. 3 cold wars: us and the soviet union, east and west europe, 3rd world (decolonization) There are several pro-democratic uprising in the east but are put down by the. Soviet union: many easterners tried to flee to the west and then would fly over the. The building of the berlin wall was a sign of weakness, not as strength. Shows the us is willing if necessary to go to war to contain communism (they defended south korea: china enters the war in 1951 and pushes the line back to where it originally was. There was a reluctance to fight a full land war. Geneva convention ensured the split of vietnam: communists in places like vietnam were genuinely popular. Fidel castro installed a communist revolutionary government o. He tried the bay of pigs and it was a giant failure.
