history

History study guide

Kennedy

• Highly enthusiastic

• American felt steady again

• young

Space Race

• Yuri Gagarin (first guy to go to space) russian/soviet

• US sent alan shepard to space 2 weeks after soviets went to space

Bay of pigs

• CIA scheme, tried to land cuban exiles in their homeland and it failed 

• Left stranded on the island, bay of pigs\

Nuclear fear

• Families built bomb shelters

• Atomic attack drills at schools

Berlin wall

• Symbol of cold war reality

• The wall divided east and west berlin during cold war

• Construction began overnight

• Many died trying to cross the wall

Peace corps

• Everyday people who wanted to help their country.

Green Berets

• Highly trained army men who went to vietnam

Nuremberg trials

• Lasted 4 years

• Decided the fate of many Nazi workers

• R,US,SU, GB came together

Manhattan project 

• The gadget

• Wanted to make nuclear bomb before Nazis

• Took over Los Alamos boys ranch to run tests

• Oppenheimer

Operation paperclip=American plan to get as many scientists as they can to come to US

Potsdam conference

-”you have to agree because i have an atomic bomb” truman

-truman, atly, 

stalin

- hints of new weapon

Truman Doctrine

• Aid free peoples- economic and financial

Berlin Airlift

• Operation Vittles

• Many thought it was impossible 

• Soviets cut all road and rail traffic heading into berlin

• Fly basic needs to the people of berlin 

Korean War

• 38k killed before war

• Drive communists out= end the war

• Wanted to invade china

• Truman fires general mac arthur

• Korea and china loose about 1 million soldiers each

Brinkmanship

-brink of war

- no first strike

-nuclear triad 

-send it back

More advanced technology

• Submarines

Beat Movement

• Poetry and living a more modern life

Robert Frank (Switzerland)

New orleans 

Segregation 

Picture called trolley

Black towards the back

White in the front

1959

Superman

Roman Cieslewicz 

1968s

Artist from poland

Both defeat each other symbol of masculinity 

Implies that both nation is a mirror of each other 

Both equally harmful and destructive