we continued with riley.
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, created stronger economic foundation in europe
plan--US gave 13 bill to europe
helping them rebuild--stop them from going communism
g, marshall.. nobel piece prize
truman doctrine--US stratedgy for containment
cuban misse
TO STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM
NICK WENT--------
cuban missel crisis
Oct. 1962
--closest thing to all out nuclear war
--over placing of nuclear missles by USSR in Cuba
--US had ability to hit anywhere but USSR didnt
--USSR put missles in Cuba to even the score
--Fidel Castro comes to power bringing communism
--Fidel says any attack on Cuba would mean world war
--start to suspect missles in Cuba
--find missle sights
--EX-COMM: Kennedy's top advisors
--orders quarentine of Cuba b/c couldnt get all missles down at once
--Gauntonamo Bay: US base in Cuba
--proposes taking missles out of Turkey if USSR would remove missles from Cuba
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