Unit 6 Lesson 2 Remediation Activity

1The Cold War in the 1960s

What We Will Review

U-2 Inciden

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Election of 1960

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin Wall

US Space Progra

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Assassination of

President Kennedy

1960

The U-2 Incident Election of 1960

• On May 1, 1960 a US spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.  

• This incident revealed that the US was spying on the Soviet Union.

• Damaged the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States.

• Republican Richard Nixon ran against Democrat John F. Kennedy.

• Debates between the two candidates were televised.

• Kennedy looked better on TV than Nixon.  Many believe Kennedy’s TV appearance helped him win the election.  

President Kennedy and the Cold War

Bay of Pigs Invasion

April 1961

CIA supported a Cuban led rebellion against communist leader Fidel Castro.

The rebels were defeated and Cuba strengthened their ties with the Soviet

Union.

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Berlin Wall

US Space Program • In October 1957, the

Soviet Union launched a satellite known as Sputnik into space.

• US responded with creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958

• President Kennedy announced a national goal to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.

• In July 1969, America landed on the moon.

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Let’s Review•The US continued to have issues with the

Soviet Union such as the U-2 Incident and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

•The US tried to competed with the Soviet Union in the US Space Program.

•Communists won in the Bay of Pigs and the building of the Berlin Wall.

•The US competed with the Soviet Union with the building of the US Space Program.

•President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and Vice President Johnson became president.