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red scare
belif that the soviet union was attempting to spered communism world wide, including in the U.S. -
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the start and finish
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julius and ethal rosenberg
aceused of giving the secerts of the atomic bomb to the russans found guliy in ('51) haclear air raid dilrl -
duck and cover
this lasted for a long time becuase we didnt know what them people would do. but in the ducke and cover thing was for schools and childern that did not know what to do. we all know that the things they said would not for worked they just did it to give them something to do. -
fall out shelters
in the time we had the duck and cover thing poeple in there houses had these shelters that would maybe keep them out of the bombs way. -
hollywood blacklist
actors, direacters, producers, thought to be communist and prevented them from working there during the red scare. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
If the Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous passage of the Cold War, the most dangerous moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the evening of Saturday, 27 October 1962, when the resolution of the crisis—war or peace—appeared to hang in the balance.
