The Red Scare
1947-57
The Berlin Airlift
June 26, 1948
Suez Crisis
October 1956
The event started when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to take control of the Suez canal to fund construction of the Aswan Dam, which Western countries had refused to finance. The Suez Canal was jointly controlled by Great Britain and France, so these two countries wanted to reclaim their property. They planned for Israel to attack and claim the canal, then they could act as negotiators. However, Egypt did not comply, so Britain and France bombed their airforce.
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Bay of Pigs
April 17-19, 1961
The U.S. had tension with Cuba because it’s leader, Fidel Castro, who was in league with Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union. A plan approved by President Eisenhower and executed by JFK trained Cuban exiles for an attack on Cuba which would have established a non-communist government there. However, they were overpowered and Castro continued to be leader of Cuba.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
October 16-28, 1962
This was a 13 day time period of nuclear tension between America and the Soviet Union. It started when Cuba installed nuclear-armed Soviet missiles 90 miles away from U.S. shores. In the end, the U.S. and Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, agreed that Cuba would remove the missiles if the U.S. didn't invade Cuba.
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The Berlin Wall is Torn Down
November 9, 1989
Since Germany split into East and West Germany, which were respectively allied with the Soviet union and Britain, France, and America. People who lived in East Germany then defected to West Germany. With so many people leaving, the Communist government of East Germany built a wall separating the two countries. The wall was finally torn down when the Soviet Union collapsed and Germany was reunited.
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