Cuban Missle Crisis
- It started because United States had missles in Turkey pointing at the the Soviets; the soviets then put missles in Cuba pointing at us
- 13 day standoff
- Compromise- The Resolution = the soviets would pull their missles out of Cuba and we would take our out of Turkey (we kept that on the down low about taking our missles out). We also promised we would never invade Cuba.
The Red Scare
- From early 50's; red meaning communism
- Everybody feared of becoming communists; everybody (high or low power) was being accused of communsim
- People were taken to trial and either way (whether they admitted to it or denied it) people thought they were communists so it was almost better just to say you are and naming other people's name to put the spotlight on someone else.
- McArthy said he had a briefcase full of peoples names that were communists so he was very well liked by the people although nobody ever saw inside the briefcase
- HUAC- went after people in Hollywood that they thought would have communist influence and made them continue their career in other countries outside of the United States
Berlin Wall
- After WW2 Germany was seperated into 4 zones and in the city of Berlin it was split into communist and democrats
- This wall was built in order to keep the east(communists) out of the west (democratic) and stop them from fleeing in the west area
- The soviets didn't want to build this wall because of how it would look; it would make them look like bad guys keeping their people enclosed in this wall.
- 100 miles long and 12 feet tall with barbed war on top
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