Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill gave it at Westminster College in 1946
"The Sinews of Peace"
the beginning of the war.
the iron curtain speech was basically saying that there was two europes. a communist side and a democratic side
Marshall Plan
European Recovery Program
created a stronger economic foundation
the truman administration wanted to help
George Marshall addressed this at Harvarad
it was more of a proposal to Europe
The Plan
the US gave western europe 13 billion dollars
Many of the major cities in Europe wer destroyed
it took Germany until 1971 to pay back
it was made to make sure that communism wouldn't start there.
George Marshall
Former General of the US army
secretary of State
Won the Nobel Peace 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
it then created NATO
some countries feared about the doctrine
it was aimed tward Turkey and Greese
it was military aid to help Greese and Turkey from becoming communist
with the concern, Truman passed the bill
The Cuban Missle Crisis
Confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the US 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
it started along with the help of the US government armed forces the CIA with a trained force of Cuban exiles attempted to attaack southern cuba and overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. (bay of pigs invasion)
Around August 1962 is when the SU started to suspect the Soviets of building missle bases in Cuba
The idea of placing nuclear missles in Cuba came from Nikita Khrushchev.
wanted to counter the lead of the US in developing and deployign strategic missles.
Also wanted to protect cuba from more US sponsored invasions
photographic proof of missile bases under contruction were caught by a US U-2 photooreconnaissance 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
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