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Joseph McCarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy and a congressional committe led the effort to expose Communists in the American film industy and goverment. -
Another Crisis in Berlin
Tens of thousands of East Germans left their country by crossing from East Berlin to West Berlin.
Some wanted ti live in a free democratic nation -
The Arms Race Begins
during the 1950's & early 1960's nuclear war for the race of power started.
Soviet Union & the U.S raced to develop powerful new weapons -
Hydrogen Bomb
in the fall of 1952 the United States tested the first fusion powered Hygrogen bomb.
As with the atomic bomb, the U.S technologoy advantage was short-lived -
Egypt
Egyp angered the West by taking over the Suez Canal, which had been controlled primarily by Great Britain and France -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union's successful launch os Sputnik.
Sputnik was historys first artificial satellite, an object that orbits earth. -
Communism in Cuba
Rebels under the leadership of Fiedel Castro overthrew Cuba's dictator.
And installed a communist government, Castro established a centrally planned economy. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
April 1961 the U.S goverment wanted to over throw Castro.
They trained approximately 1,500 Cubans who has fled to Castro's regime, the invaders were quickly defeated. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
a confortation between the United States and the United States and The Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet Nuclear missiles in cuba.
