The Bay of Pigs Invasion
Essential Questions:
1) What is a Sphere Of Influence?
2) How did the Americans plan to get
believe that this plan would work?
3) What were the results of the Bay of
rid of Castro? And why did they
Pigs failure?
Review
1) Who did Fidel Castro overthrow in 1958? _____________________________________________
2) How long did this take? ________________________________________________________________
3) What type of governing system was the Cuban government?
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4) Complete the sentence:
A _______________________________________________ is any area in which one country, for
example the USA or Russia, has a lot of ____________________ over another country or
other countries.
5) Which colour represents the USA Sphere of influence? ________________________________
6) Which colour represents the USSR Sphere of influence? _______________________________
7) Why were the Americans afraid?
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1959-1961
1) How would you describe the relationship between Cuba and the USA at this time?
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2) What city did a lot of Cuban migrants migrate to at this time?
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3) What forced these people to migrate?
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4) Where was the USA able to maintain it's Naval base? _________________________________
5) What did people begin to think about Castro?
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6) According to reports where was Cuba getting supplies? _______________________________
Trying to get rid of Castro
1) What did the US believe about Castro at this time?
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2) What did the Cuban migrants tell the US government about the Cuban people?
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3) Who told the CIA to develop a plan to invade Cuba?
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4) Who took over the US Presidency in 1961?
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5) What was the aim of the invasion?
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6) Who was trained by the USA to carry out the invasion?
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7) Why did the USA do this?
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8) Where did they invade on April 17th, 1961? ___________________________________________
Results
1) Who knew about the invasion? ________________________________________________________
2) Who met Brigade 2506? _______________________________________________________________
3) What were they armed with? __________________________________________________________
4) What happened to Brigade 2506 within 2 days?
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5) Write down the effects of this invasion plan
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In your own words write a 2-3 sentence summary of today’s video:
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Also, write one thought-provoking question to bring to class.
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