Presentations
Churchill gave the Iron Curtain Speech in Missouri at the Westminister College in 1946.
Titled the "Sinews of Peace"
It was about the Iron Curtain in Europe
This curtain was a n imaginary line that seperated Communist countries in Europe from the other non-Communist countries in Europe
George C. Marshall set up this proposal
US gave Europe 13 million dollars-many major cities in Europe were destroyed after war
US thought that if we didn't help them then the Soviet Union would turn them into communists
George Marshall won the Nobel Prize for creating the Marshall Plan
Countries feared the Truman Doctrine, Truman passed the bill
Cuban Missile Crisis- Confrontation between US, Soviet Union, and Cuba
Cuba and Soviet Union were building bases for nuclear missiles
Cuba was close to the US so they could bomb us easily from a close range
Soviets moved nuclear weapons to Cuba- idea from Nikita Khrushchev
This Cold War was close to becoming a nuclear warfare
August 1962 we suspected them building bases in Cuba
October 14 United States U-2 dicovered missile bases
Military Quarantine of Cuba
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