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Material Type: Notes; Professor: Knoblauch; Class: HIST THROUGH FILM; Subject: History (HIST); University: Ohio University; Term: Fall 2009;
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Week 5 – Study Guide
Terms: Cuban Missile Crisis Mutually Assured Destruction John F. Kennedy Technocrat Nikita Khrushchev Limited Test Ban Treaty Fidel Castro Poltava Che Guevara U- Robert S. McNamara Robert Kennedy William Castle Guantanamo Bay Monroe Doctrine Bay of Pigs Operation Mongoose Missile Gap Jupiter Missiles Adlai Stevenson
Questions to Consider:
XTC – Living Through Another Cuba
John Quincy Adams, author of the Monroe Doctrine
Americans have long held that the Western Hemisphere was their sphere of domination.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE (1823):
In particular, Cuba was in American imperial designs;
JQ Adams: Cuba is “an object of transcendent importance to the political and commercial interests of our Union.”
Castro and Che Guevara
Castro is born in 1926;
A Lawyer by training
In 1955, he and his brother RAUL travel to Mexico; they are looking for support to begin a Guerrilla war for independence in Cuba
They meet the Argentine freelance revolutionary ERNESTO GUEVARA, or “Che Guevara”
JFK and Robert Kennedy attempt to assassinate Castro with no luck
THE BAY OF PIGS is a total failure
William Castle
William Castle is the inspiration for John Goodman’s character
Castle used gimmicks to bring in bigger crowds -1958s Macabe: audience members had a life insurance policy taken out
Week 5 – Study Guide
Terms: Cuban Missile Crisis Mutually Assured Destruction John F. Kennedy Technocrat Nikita Khrushchev Limited Test Ban Treaty Fidel Castro Poltava Che Guevara U- Robert S. McNamara Robert Kennedy William Castle Guantanamo Bay Monroe Doctrine Bay of Pigs Operation Mongoose Missile Gap Jupiter Missiles Adlai Stevenson
Questions to Consider:
Elvis Costello – Waiting on the End of the World
The U
The U2 receives notorious “bad press” When Francis Gary Powers (left) is shot down over Russian Airspace May 1st, 1960; refuses suicide