Chapter 17 Section 4 Lecture 🎧

countries aligned with the United States and its allies

countries aligned with the Soviet Union and its allies

developing countries not aligned with the United States or Soviet Union

countries with a gross national product higher than First and Second World countries

Khrushchev believed the United States was too weak to oppose Soviet expansion into Cuba

Kennedy announced a blockade of Cuba following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion

Castro protested his country's being used as a tool for the Cold War and asked Khrushchev to intervene.

The Bay of Pigs troops were used to build the missile bases

The United States gave aid to Sandinistas but withdrew support when the Sandinistas aided Marxist rebels in El Salvador

The United States built a nuclear base there to deter Communists.

The failed Bay of Pigs invasion ended U.S. military aid to Nicaragua.

The Contra rebels in Nicaragua enlisted the aid of the Soviet Union, and the United States intervened to halt Communist support.

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Anastasio Somoza

Fidel Castro

to fight an indirect war with the United States

to gain control of Middle Eastern oil supplies

to reestablish the Communist regime in Afghanistan

to cause the United states to boycott the 1980 Olympics