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Mcarthyism
Belief that the soviet union was attempting to spread communism world wide, including the U.S -
Hollywood Blacklist
Actors,directors,producers, ect. thought to communist & prevented them from working there during the red scare. -
Duck & Cover
Expression used from 1950's nuclear air raid drill -
Fallout shelters
Built usually underground in the 1950's during the fear of nulear war -
Julius & Ethel Rosenburg
Accused of giving the secrets of the atomic bomb to the russians, found guilty (1951) & electrocuted (1953) -
The invasion
20,000 cuban soliders invaded the swampy bay of pigs and captured about 1,100 men and imprisoned them. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 days in 1962 in which the U.S., Cuba & the soviet union came to the brink of nuclear war over the installment of missile sites in Cuba by the soviets- Soviets withdrew sites -
Bay Of Pigs
Failed invasion of cuba by CIA trained Cuban rebels in April, 1961, embarrassment to JFK administration
