Today Nick Petsche and Riley Finn started and finished there presentations. This is the rest of Riley’s information: and a goat…
Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill gave the Iron Curtain Speech at Westminster College in Missouri in 1946. This was the beginning of the Cold War. This also known as The Sinews of Peace was what the speech he gave was called. This speech upset the USSR and it was about the communists and the non-communist. The Iron Curtain was an imaginary line that was spread across Europe. Churchill defined the communists and the non-communists.
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was also known as the European Recovery Plan which formed a stronger economic foundation in Europe. The Truman Administration wanted to help out the Marshall Plan. George Marshall addressed the Marshall Plan at Harvard and it was more of a proposal in Europe. The US gave 13 Billion Dollars to help with War Repartitions and to help them. Many major cities in Europe were destroyed in WWII. It took Germany until 1971 to pay the War Reparations to the US after the US bailed them out.
George Marshall
He was the Military leader right behind the President and eh was also the Secretary of State and he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 because he created the Marshall Plan.
Truman Doctrine
This was part of the US strategy to stop the spread of communism in Western Europe and in Asia. The “Long Telegram” was how the Soviets would respond to this plan. The US set up a long term strategy to help out the Truman Doctrine. The first step of the Truman Doctrine was the NATO. The NATO was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. We will learn more about that next week. Some countries were feared of the Doctrine because they were afraid it would hurt their countries. With the concern, Truman passed the bill. The Truman Doctrine was aimed to help Turkey and Greece. The Truman Doctrine was to help stop the spread of communism in Greece and Turkey.
Here is Nick Petsche’s Presentation and a goat: It is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the US in October in 1962. The Cuban and Soviet Union governments were building base on Cuba to build ballistic nuclear missiles. This was known to be the closest that the Cold War was to turning into a Nuclear Conflict. The Soviet Union was the owners of these nuclear missiles.
Along with the help of US government armed forces and the CIA along with trained Cuban exiles in Miami Florida. This attack was known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion because the soldiers were dropped off in the area known as the Bay of Pigs. The exiles were people who left Cuba after Castro became the leader in the government. The exiles wanted there old government back. The idea of the putting the Nuclear Missiles in Cuba was Nikita Khrushchev’s idea and the Soviet Union was doing this to counter the lead of the US in developing and deploying strategic missiles. Also the Soviets wanted to protect Cuba from more US sponsored invasions like the Bay of Pigs, which was an invasion prior to the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Photographic Proof of a missile base under construction was caught on tape by the US U-2 photoreconnaissance on October 14th 1962. The US considered attacking Cuba but then decided to make a military quarantine over Cuba. On October 23, 1962 President Kennedy signed proclamation 3504. Proclamation 3504 was authorized the military quarantine of Cuba.
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