NIkita Talks of destalinization
-Sputnik
-Space Race
-USSR was the first to put a satellite/ space ship into space
-US was first to land on the moon on 1969.
-USSR would also put animals space
-Conspiracies
-Fidel Castro overthrows Batista
-Berlin Wall- 1961
-Put up to divide Berlin, Gemany
-East side was communistic
-West side was non-communistic
Bay of Pigs
-It was the US's secret attempt to overthrow Castro
-JFK was the President at the time
-Failed Miserably
-Arguably lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Crisis
-USSR put missiles into Cuba
-They said it was for defensive purposes so taht the U.S. wouldn't invade communistic Cuba.
-Most intense time of the Cold War.
-The United States Wanted the Missiles out of Cuba
-Resolution: take US's secret missile out of Turkey secretly in exchange for the missiles in Cuba.
-Berlin wall comes down, Nov. 9, 1989
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