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- - - - -Kennedy was know for the bay of pigs crisis which he did to Cuba he also participated in the Cuban missile crisis. president Kennedy faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure achievements in the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress.
    - - Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, he became the president after the death of Roosevelt. he was serving as vice president. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine he played a big role in the cold war.
    - - was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States. In response to the Suez Crisis, Eisenhower introduced his doctrine in January 1957. The Eisenhower Doctrine hoped to protect the Middle East from the influence of the U.S.S.R. while also containing the rise of Arab nationalism
    - - Castro was a Cuban communist revolutionary politician. Returning to Cuba, Castro became a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister
  - - - Mao was a Chinese communist who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the chairman of the Communist Party of China. China aided Communist North Korea while the United States provided support for South Korea, in a conflict known as the Korean War
  - - - Khrushchev was a Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviets. he was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union
    - - Stalin was the ruler of Communistic Russia. According to Zubok, He faults Stalin for meddling in Turkey and Iran, claiming Soviet actions outside the areas of cooperation agreed upon at Yalta and Potsdam. Tensions arose between the Soviet-backed Eastern Bloc and U.S.-backed Western Bloc which became known as the Cold War. Stalin led his country through the post-war reconstruction, during which it developed a nuclear weapon
- - - - -Potsdam Conference 1945: focus on German economy restoration in relation to agriculture.
      - -Marshall Plan 1947: extended economic aid to maintain diplomatic relations.
      - -Truman Doctrine 1947: US provided economic aid to struggling European nations for trade partners.
      - -Berlin Blockade and Airlift 1948-49: US was trade partner with western Europe and west germany.
    - - -Stalin's Reelection Speech 1946: Stalin thought that the west was going to attack the USSR; west thought USSR would attack west and spread communism
      - -Berlin Blockade and Airlift 1948-49: Stalin wanted to take Berlin; strong division over Berlin
    - - -Potsdam Conference 1945: focus on German economy restoration in relation to agriculture.
      - -Berlin Blockade and Airlift 1948-49: US was trade partner with western Europe and west germany.
      - -Marshall Plan 1947: extended economic aid to maintain diplomatic relations.
      - -Truman Doctrine 1947: US provided economic aid to struggling European nations for trade partners.
    - - -US: promoting democratic governments, supporting human rights, wanting to improve economic growth by increasing trade partners in Europe, interests in increasing prestige by proving themselves on international stage
      - -USSR: promoting and wanting to spread the ideology of communism across Europe; desire to appear as a international superpower through upstaging US, wanted to increase prestige and nationalism within the USSR
  - - - Containment was immoral because it left people enslaved to communism. In 1953, communism was pushed back and the workers strike Korean from East Germany. Massive Retaliation: spend money on nukes and not on conventional forces because US wont keep fighting a series of proxy wars. In 1956, was the Hungary Revolt.
    - - In the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev's leadership from 1955-1964 is remembered as a period of “thaw” during the Cold War. This policy of the peaceful coexistence was meant to improve relations between the Soviet Union and the United State and had major significance for the preceding events of the Cold War.
    - - In the 1960s, China accused the USSR under Khrushchev of perverting socialism and betraying the revolution by making a detente with the West. Khrushchev and his successors accused Mao of distorting Marxism to make it fit in with China's peasant society. This was one of the causes of the Sino-Soviet Split.
- - - - it was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During World War II Germany and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. in 1945, the Allies decided to split Germany into four zones of occupation. The capital, Berlin, was also split into four zones. The next day Stalin cut off all rail and road links to west Berlin it was known as the Berlin Blockade
    - - The Second Berlin Crisis was The Soviet blockade of Berlin that began in 1948 and it led to the first major conflict between the great powers of USA, Great Britain, and France they resolved, and agreed not to abandon West Berlin.