-Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Castro comes to power in Cuba, and establishes communism
- Nixon’s plan= CIA trained Cubans to go in and overthrow Castro
- The Cuban people didn’t join in the fight
- Hoping the Cuban people would join in
- The Cubans were captured and killed
-Cuban Missile Crisis
- We had just done the Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Spy plane flew over Cuba
- 13 day stand off
- Compromise= the Soviets would take their missiles out of Cuba and we would take our missiles out of Turkey and never invade Cuba
-Berlin Wall
- Separated in two sides
- Communist (East) and democrats (West)
- Built to keep people out easterners were coming in to the west
- Soviets didn’t want to build a wall because it would build more tension
- Thought people were going to choose communism
- If you got into west Berlin you were free
- If you escaped the wall they would get killed
- Before the wall was built it was easy to go from east to west
- 100 miles long with barbed wire on the top
- Symbolized the Cold War
- Came down because communism was over
-Red Scare
- The hear of communism
- House of UN American activity - Which went after Hollywood and government activity to pinpoint communists
- McCarthy was killed by alcohol poisoning after being censored for what he had been saying
-Cuban Missile crisis
- Soviets had missiles in Cuba just in case the united states tried something after the bay of pigs invasion
- Also gave them the right of first strike capability
- U.2. spy plane discovered this causing the United States to go into a spiraling panic
- This is the closest the United states came close to nuclear war
- There ended up being a compromise where the united states would remove there missiles from turkey and then the soviets would remove missiles from cuba and we would not invade them.
-Korean war
- Soviets were given north and the south was controlled by the United States
- There was going to be an election held to unite the country but the election did not occur
- Eventually war had broke out in the attempt to unify the country
- Eventually North Korea invaded the south with aid from other countries
- They pushed to very south eastern end of Korea and then the United Nations steps in and declares war to help south Korea
- They pushed up to the border of china where they entail bombing china
- Eventually an armistice had been singed to stop the fighting between the borders
- The United States has 30,000 troops around the D.M.Z
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