1. Tuesday, April 12th
Check in 29.1 Riddles
worksheet
 Review Riddles
 Journal Question

2. Kennedy Cooks up
some bacon.
 Bay of Pigs Invasion
 US trains Cubans to
overthrow Cuban gov’t
 EPIC FAIL!!

5. Cuba is storing some
Soviet missiles?
 Cuban Missile Crisis
 U.S. finds out that Soviets have
missiles on Cuba
 U.S. worried about attack!

8. Russia, you only got to
outer space, we
Americans can top that!
 U.S. is in competition with Russia to be
the Space Race leader
 U.S. (Democracy) vs Russia
(Communism)
 We have to win to show that U.S. and
democracy is better!

10. This whole space thing
sounds crazy!
 Some Americans still thought
“Space Travel” was this idea
of science fiction

14. My goal was to land a
person on the moon.
 NASA
(National
Aeronautical
and Space
Administration)

15. The Eagle has landed.
 July 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Lightyear Aldrin walked on the Moon.
 A few more men have walked the moon
since, but we have not been back to walk
on the moon since 1972.

17. I want a communist
revolution in Vietnam,
who am I?
 Ho Chi Minh- Vietnamese
leader who wanted to unite all
of Vietnam as Communist.

19. One falls then next, and the
next, and the next, and the
next…etc.
 Domino Theory- if
one country would
fall to communism
them nearby
countries would
become communist
as well.

20. This 1954 agreement
temporarily divided Vietnam
into North and South
Vietnam.
 Geneva Accords- temporarily
divided Vietnam into a North and
a South Vietnam
 Once democratic elections took
place then country would unite

22. This is no monkey
business, this is the name
of guerilla forces
 Vietcong- Communist army of
North Vietnam
 Use non-traditional ways of fighting
(guerilla warfare)

24. Journal Question
 Since we already landed on
the moon, should America
try to be the first to land on
another planet? Why or
why not?