Policy of Containment
US used it to stop the spread of communism...it build up foreign policy, prevented the domino effect...President Truman best represented the policy...
George Kennan-creator of the policy...US ambassador and diplomat in Soviet Union and Yugoslavia...leader of many programs...critic of international policies...
Domino Effect-communist theory-just keep making countries communist...taking over South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia...Thailand and Indonesia were not taken over
Iron Curtain Speech-Winston Churchill gave the speech and he was talking about how the imaginery line known as the IRON CURTAIN would split europe into eastern and western europe or communism or non communism...West was the free and East was the Communism...
Marshall Plan-(European Recovery Program)- created a stronger economic foundation...The US gave western europe $13 billion to reconstruct their cities because they were destroyed...We felt like if we didnt step in and help the Soviet Union would help and make them communists or something...TO MAKE SURE THEY DID NOT BECOME COMMUNIST!!!
George Marshall-former general of the US army..Secretary of State...Won the Nobel Peace Prize because he created the Marshall Plan..
Truman Doctrine-US strategy for containment...the "Long Telegram" was how the Soviets would respond...It was aimed for Greece and Turkey...they were having communists in their country trying to takeover so they asked the US for military aid and we sent them billions of dollars to help them fight off the communists from taking over their countries and it worked...
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets were building bases for nuclear missiles in Cuba...said to be the point in which the cold war came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict...
Cuba was upset with the US because they were involved with invasions in cuba such as the Bay Pigs Invasion...around August 1962 is when the US started to suspect the Soviets of building missile bases in Cuba..
Nikita Khrushchev-he had the idea of placing nuclear missiles in Cuba...wanted to counter the lead of the US in developing strategic missiles...also wanted to protect Cuba from more US sponsored invasions...
Photographic proof of missile bases under construction were caught by a United States U-2 photoreconnaissance on October 14th...US considered attacking Cuba but instead settled on a military quarantine of Cuba..On October 23,1962 President Kennedy signed proclamation 3504-authorization to put the military quarantine in order...
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