-iron curtain speech..
-winston churchill gave it at westminster college in 1946
-"the sinews of peace"
-the beginning of the war
-western europe and eastern europe (split by the imaginary line)
-the plan..
-the us gave 13 billion dollars
-many of the major cities is europe were destroyed
-george marshall..
-former general of the us army.
-secretary of state
-won the nobel peaace prize in 1953
-truman doctrine..
-us strategy for the containment
-the long telegram was how the soviets would respond
-us set up long term strategy
-first step in the process
-nato
-some countries feared abou tthe doctrine
-the the concern, truman passed the bill
-was aimed to help greece and turkey
-the cuban missile crisis..
-what was the cuban missile crisis..
-confrontation between the soviet union, cuba and the united states in october, 1962
-cuban and soviet governments were building bases for nuclear missiles
-said to be the point in which the cold war came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict.
-cuban missle crisis..
-the idea of placing nuclear missiles in cuba came from nikita khrushchev
-wanted to counter the lead of the us in developing and deploying strategic missiles
-also wanted to protect cuba from more us sponsored invasions.
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