Berlin Blockade
- In 1948, the three western controlled zones of Germany's(US, France, UK) were united, and grew in prosperity due to Marshal Aid.
- The west wanted the east to rejoin, but Stalin feared it would hurt Soviet security.
- In June 1948, Stalin decided to try to gain control of west Berlin which was deep inside the eastern sector
- He cut road, rail and canal links with West Berlin, hoping to starve it into submission
- The west responded by airlifting in the necessary supplies to allow west Berlin to survive.
- In May 1949, Russia admitted defeat and lifted the blockade
Bay of Pigs
- Our Project
Cuban Missile Crisis
- October 1962
- For 2 weeks, both countries people were nervous.
- We quarantined (blockade) Cuba
- Next, was to do airstrikes to take out the nuclear missiles
- The plan then said we would invade Cuba
- The Soviet Union said they would withdraw their weapons from Cuba. The US said we would never invade Cuba in exchange. We also said we would withdraw our nuclear weapons from Turkey 6 months later.
Red Scare
- Fear of rising communism
- In 1950 McCarthy gave a speech where he claimed to have a list of 205 communist in the State Department
- No one in the press actually saw the names on the list, but McCarthy announcement made national news and caused panic throughout the country
- McCarthy became one of the most powerful in the US
- People who supported McCarthy were:
- Republicans
- Catholics
- Conservative Protestants
- Blue collar workers
- Joseph and Robert Kennedy
- In the spring of 1945, McCarthy charged the US Army had promoted a dentist accused of being a communist
- For the first time, television broadcast allowed the general public to see the Senator as a blustering bully and his investigations as little more than a misguided scam
- McCarthyism - Accusing people without having any evidence
Berlin Wall
- The wall was built by the Soviets to keep people in the city
- Berlin wall was built in 1961-1989 to separate East and West (communist from democrat)
- If you wanted to go from East to West you had have special permission and fill-out paperwork. You also had to go through Brandenburg Gage and Checkpoint Charlie.
- Berlin wall comes down on November 9, 1989 - A symbol of the end of the Cold War
Korean War
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