Lesson 1 Bay of Pigs

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Lesson 1Bay of Pigs
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Bell Ringer

• Click on the following link and view the video
  titled Bay of Pigs aftermath. After viewing the
  video click on the link that allows to read the
  transcript. http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/sf
  eature/sf_video.html
• What is your opinion of the mood set in this news
  clip? Do you agree with feelings and attitudes
  towards the invasion? Why or why not? If it was
  your home being invaded would you feel the same
  way?

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Purpose SWBAT 8.4.12.

• Identify and evaluate why the Bay of Pigs
  invasion was ordered.
• Identify what preparations were needed to launch
  the invasion.
• Explain what the thinking process of President
  Kennedy was when ordering the invasion and
  identify the reasons for invasion.
• Evaluate the impact the invasion had on relations
  between the U.S. and Cuba and the U.S. and the
  Soviet Union and how it affected the Cold War.

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Input - Lecture

• How the invasion originated and why.
• http//library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/bay_of_pi
  gs.html

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• Key players in the invasion and the role they
  played.

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• What went wrong during the invasion and why it
  failed.

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• Impact the invasion had on relations between the
  U.S. and Cuba and the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

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Practice/Application

• Timeline of the events that led up to the Bay of
  Pigs invasion.

http//www.opb.org/education/coldwar/bayofpigs/tim
eline/flash.html
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• Website that gives an overview of the invasion
  and includes video footage and reactions from
  both sides.
• http//cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/04/17/
  bay.of.pigs/

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• Interactive map of Cuba.
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/maps/index.htm
  l

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Closure

• Assume you are President Kennedy. What would you
  do if you were in this situation? Would you give
  the go ahead for an invasion? Why or why not?
  What might you do differently?