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Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill gave it at Westminster College in 1946
"The Sinews of Peace"
The biginning of the war
Marshall Plan
european Recovery Program
Created a strong economic Foundation
The Truman Administation wanted to help
George Marshall addressed this is Harvard
The Plan
The US gave 13 billion dollars
Many of the major cities in european were destroyed
It took Germany until 1971 to pay back
Marshall
Former General of the US army
Secretary if state
Won the Nobel Peace in 1953
Truman Doctrine
US stragegy for the containment
The Long Telegram was how the soviet Would respond
US set up long term stragety
NATO
Nick-
Confrontation between the Soviet union, Cuba and the united states in October 1962
cuban and soviet governments were building bases for nuclear missiles
Stared
Along with the help of the us government armed forces the Cia with a trianed force of Cuban Exiles attemped to attack southern Cuba and overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro
Around Aug. 1962 is when the us started to suspect the Soviet of building missiles bases in cuba
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