Berlin Crisis-
- June 1948- May 1949
- Blockade- active war
- We airlifted supplies in
- Germany was split into 4 zones
- Soviets end blockade
Red Scare/McCarthyism-
- Red scare- the scare of communism spreading
- McCarthy accused innocent people for being communist
- Said he had a list of 205 people being communist in the state department
- No one really saw the list of people
- McCarthy became one of the most powerful people in the US
Supporters of McCarthy-
- Republicans
- Catholics
- Conservative protestants
- Blue-collar workers
- Joseph and Robert Kennedy
McCarthy died from alcoholism.
Bay of Pigs-
- In Cuba
- Started by Eisenhower
- Left up to Kennedy
- Didn't want us to have a country that close to us being communist
- Trained Cubans that didn't like Castro
- We made it look like the Cubans did it so we weren't going to war
- Failed miserably
- Brought up the Cuban missile crisis
- Hurt president Kennedy because they found out the US did it
Cuban Missile Crisis-
- 13 days
- Cuba thinks we are a threat so they use Soviet Unions missiles
- We found out they had IRBM which meant they could reach the outer part of the United States
- Kennedy was going to air strike them to take out the missilies
- We were then going to invade them
- Compromise was that we will never invade Cuba and they would take back there missilies
- We would then take out our missiles from Turkey after 6 months
- Very close to war with Soviet Union
Berlin Wall (going up and coming down)
- Soviets build a wall in 1961
- Soviets didn't want to build the wall because they didn't want people to not want like communist so they had to make sure they didn't leave
- People wanted to live on the free side
- True symbol of Cold War
- People would get shot down if they tried escapaing
- Piece of land in between them where people would see the people that tried to flee
- You went through Checkpoint Charlie if you wanted to get passed the two
- Fell in 1989
- People started walking through and they would pick the wall apart
- Communism fell apart
- Soviet Union fell apart and countries broke out of the Soviet Union
Korean War-
- North started this by invading the South
- Back and forth war
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