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The Cold War Heats Up
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Review w WWII Ends w Iron Curtain w Berlin Blockade & Airlift w Containment >>> Truman Doctrine
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Opposing Alliances w NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949) Democratic Countries w Warsaw Pact (1955) USSR & Communist Countries
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Korean War w Communist North Korea attacks Democratic South Korea (1950) w UN sends forces to fight communists w By 1951 - Stalemate - 1953 War ends
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2 nd Red Scare w Fear of communists w Republicans in Congress started hunting communists w FBI Investigations w House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) 1947
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Senator Joe McCarthy
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McCarthyism w Senator Joseph McCarthy w Alleged that members of U.S. State Dept. were communists w Innocent Americans are blacklisted w Anti-Communist Hysteria w Accused military - Brought Downfall
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Berlin Wall w Built by USSR in 1961 to prevent East Germans from escaping to freedom w Divided city of Berlin w Kennedy – Ich bin ein Berliner”
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Bay Of Pigs Invasion w 1961 – Unsuccessful attack by CIA-trained Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro & the Communists in Cuba w Backed by Kennedy Administration
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Cuban Missile Crisis w USSR attempts to install missiles in Communist Cuba w U.S. (Kennedy) blockades Cuba & demands removal of nukes w Khrushchev (USSR) backs down w U.S. agrees to remove missiles from Turkey
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Cuba Missile CrisisUnimaps.com John Kennedy US President Robert McNamara US Secretary of Defense McGeorge Bundy US Nat Security Advisor Maxwell Taylor Head of SGA Adlai Stevenson US ambassador to UN Nikita Khrushchev USSR Premier Anatoly Dobrynin USSR Ambassador to US Fidel Castro Leader of Cuba Andrei Gromyko USSR Foreign Minister Sithu U-Thant Acting UN Secretary- General Maps © 2005 UniMaps.com
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