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Vietnam War:
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. France owned the whole area for a long time, and it had problems during the WWll. Then, Japan comes in and does their thing for some time, then he loses the WWll. France comes back and tries to regain control and the US president tried to be allie of France. China, Ho Chi Minh asks Fr -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The U.S. president Eisenhower directed the CIA to developed a plan to overthrow the Castro's regime. When President J.F. Kennedy came into power he learned the plan and he noticed that Castro was a threat for Latin America. The plan failed, and this strengthened Castro's positon. The objectives for this plan was remove the Communist Castro regime from power in Cuba. -
Brandenburg Gate Speech
This speech by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin contains one of the most memorable lines spoken during his presidency. The Berlin Wall, referred to by the President, was built by Communists in August 1961 to keep Germans from escaping Communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West Berlin. Wanted to tear down the wall. -
M.A.D
Mutual Assured Destruction began to emerge at the end of the Kennedy administration. MAD reflects the idea that one's population could best be protected by leaving it vulnerable so long as the other side faced comparable vulnerabilities. In short: Whoever shoots first, dies -
Cuba Misile Crisis
Was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
S.A.L.T
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks: negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that were aimed at curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The first agreements, known as SALT I and SALT II, were signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic. Of the resulting complex of agreements (SALT I), the most important were the Treaty -
Afghanistan War
The soviets attacked the Afghanistan since they wanted them to be communist. Also, they wanted to run a pipe line through Afghanistan but they didn’t wanted. United States didnt permit the soviets to do. This war lasted nine years(Dec 1979- Feb 1989) -
Iran Contra Affairs
The Iran-Contra Affairs of the 1980s stemmed from the Reagan Administration’s foreign policies toward two seemingly unrelated countries, Nicaragua and Iran. The Administration believed that changes to these countries that occurred in the 1970s threatened U.S. national interests.In Nicaragua, a socialist movement (the Sandinistas) seized power through a revolution. pread of socialism throughout Latin America, eventually backed paramilitaries (the contras) who sought to overthrow this revolutiona
