tomorrrow we are going to watch thirteen days
Iron Cutrtain Speech
marked the beginning of the war, soviets were not happy with the speech. the speech was about the iron curtain, which was like the non communists and the communists and europe.. churchill gave the speech. talked about how the iron curtain had split europe, saying there was now eastern europe and western europe.. seperated by this spred of communism. the communist world and the free democratic world did not mesh. first defined by churchills iron curtain speech... and the cold war began...
east side europe.. communist. west side. free.
Marshall Plan
european recovery program for western europe.. created a stronger economic foundation.. thetruman administration wanted to help.. george marshall addressed it.. it was a proposal to europe.. the us gave europe 13 billion dollars.. many of the major cities in europe were destroyed.. we thought that we should rebuild europe to stop the spread of communism.. if we didnt lend a helping had the soviet union would and then they would make them comunists and we did not want that to happen. STOP THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM IN EUROPE. we offered this money even to the soviet union. the soviet union did not allow eastern european countries to accept the money that we offered..
George Marshall
former general of the us army.. secretary of state. won the nobel peace prize in 1953 because he created the marshall plan..
Truman Doctrine
us strategy for containment. the long telegram was how the soviets would resopnd. us set up a long term strategy, the first step in the process.. establishing NATO to stop communism. it was aimed to help greece and turky. they were in couth eastern europe and there were communists in their country trying to take over so they called us for help so we sent them billions of dollars and military supplies and aid. it was to help them to literelly fight off the communists from taking over their countries. the bill was passed.
The Cuban Missle Crisis
the cuban missle crisis was a confrontation between the soviet union cuba and the united states in october 1963. coman and soviet governments were building bases for nuclear missles. sait to be the poing the which the cold war came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. building the missles in cuba.. cuba was upset with the us because of invasions such as the bay of pigs invasion. the us started to suspect that the soviet union was building missles in cuba around august of 1962. along with the help of the us government armed forces the cia with a trained force of cuban exiles attempted to attack southern cuba. cuban exiles are anti communist cubans. the idea of placing nuclear missles in cuba came from Nikita Khrushchev. Wanted to countrer the lead of the us in developing and deploying strategic missles.. the us was building missles in turkey but the soviets having building missles in cuba gave them first strike capability because they were closer to us. also wanted to protect cuba from more us sponsored invastions. photographic proof of missle bases under construction were caught by a united states U-2 photoreconnaissance on october 14. the united states considered attacking cuba but instead they settled on a military quarantine of cuba. on october 23, 1962, president kennedy signed proclamation 3504. we had a lot of options of what to do with this. we really wanted the soviet union to leave cuba peacefully .
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