Transcript Cuban missile crisis

PRESENTATION OF
IRMA MARTINEZ.
HISTORY U.S.
1ST PERIOD.
The Truman Doctrine was an international
relations policy set forth by the U.S. President
Harry Truman in a speech[1] on March 12, 1947,
which stated that the U.S. would support Greece
and Turkey with economic and military aid to
prevent them from falling into the Soviet
sphere.[2] Historians often consider it as the start
of the Cold War, and the start of the containment
policy to stop Soviet expansion.[
The United States would help stabilize
legal foreign governments threatened by
revolutionary minorities and
outside pressures.
The Truman
Doctrine.
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The Truman Doctrine's policy objective was to
send U.S. aid to anti-Communist forces in Greece
and Turkey, later it was expanded.
The Marshall Plan (officially the European
Recovery Program, ERP) was the American
initiative to aid Europe, in which the United
States gave economic support to help
rebuild European economies after the end of
World War II in order to prevent the spread
of Soviet Communism.
Marshall
Plan.
• Pays freight subsidies for
16.8 million private voluntary
relief packages from Americans
to Europe.
• Funds building of a new wharf in North
Borneo to help that British colony export
vitally needed rubber.
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The plan was first laid out by U.S. Secretary of
State George Marshall during an address at
Harvard University in 1947
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also
called the Atlantic Alliance, is an
intergovernmental military alliance based on
the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed
on 4 April 1949.
Nato.
NATO Chiefs of Defense concluded
a successful two-day meeting
at NATO Headquarters identifying the future
military priorities in Operations, Partnerships
and Transformation, setting the basis for the
work on the 2014 Summit deliverables
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NATO and Partner Chiefs of Defense
reaffirmed their commitment to fully support
the ISAF Commander over the next 11
months.
The Cuban missile crisis—known as the
October crisis or The Missile Scare (Spanish:
Crisis de octubre) in Cuba and the Caribbean
crisis
Cuban
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins on October
Missile crisis.
14, 1962, bringing the United States
and the Soviet Union to the brink
of nuclear conflict.
characteristics.
Tensions between the United States and the
Soviet Union over Cuba had been steadily
increasing since the failed April 1961 Bay of
Pigs invasion.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in
Hispanic America as Invasion de Bahía de
Cochinos was an unsuccessful military
invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIAsponsored paramilitary group Brigade
2506 on 17 April 1961.
Bay of
pigs.
was an unsuccessful military
invasion of Cuba undertaken
by the CIA-sponsored
paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17
April 1961.
characteristics.
the Ten Years' War (1868–1878), the Little
War (1879–1880) and the Cuban War of
Independence (1895–1898).
The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th
century competition between the Soviet
Union (USSR) and the United States (US)
for supremacy in space exploration
Space Race.
The Space Race had its origins
in the missile-based arms race
That occurred just after the end of the
World War II, when both the Soviet Union
and the United States captured advanced
German rocket technology and personnel.
characteristics.
The Space Race sparked increases in
spending on education and pure research,
which led to beneficial spin-off
technologies.
From the dates 1891 to 1919, an arms race
between several European countries,
including Germany, France, Russia, and a
few more took place. Specifically,
Germany's envy of Britain's superior navy
in the run up to World War I.
Arms Race.
This tense arms race lasted until
June 1914, when, after two
antagonistic power blocs were
formed because of the rivalry, the World
War broke out.
characteristics.
a new arms race developed among the
victorious Allies. The Washington Naval
Treaty was only partly able to put an end to
the race.
McCarthyism is the practice of making
accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or
treason without proper regard for evidence
McCARTHYISM
the practice of making unfair
allegations or using unfair
investigative techniques, especially in order
to restrict dissent or political criticism.
characteristics.
During the McCarthy era, thousands of
Americans were accused of being
communists or communist sympathizers and
became the subject of aggressive
investigations
The House Committee on Un-American
Activities (HUAC) was an investigative
committee of the United States House of
Representatives.
HOUSE OF
UN-AMERICAN
ACTIVITIES
COMMITTEE.
It was created in 1938 to
investigate alleged disloyalty
and subversive activities on the
part of private citizens, public employees,
and those organizations suspected of having
Communist ties.
characteristics.
In 1969, the House changed the committee's
name to "House Committee on Internal
Security
The term is often used in reference to the
general easing of the geo-political tensions
between the Soviet Union and the United
States which began in 1969, as a foreign
policy of U.S.
POLICY OF
DÉTENTE
The period was characterized
by the signing of treaties
such as the SALT I and the Helsinki Accords.
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marked the close of détente and a return to
Cold War tensions
Peace through strength" is an ancient phrase
and concept implying that strength of arms is
a necessary component of peace. The phrase
is quite old; it has famously been used by
many leaders from Roman Emperor Hadrian
in the first century AD, to Ronald Reagan in
the 1980s
PEACE
THROUGH
STRENTH
the American Security Council
Foundation, a small non-profit
conservative organization chaired
by a dentist in Sebastian, Florida, claimed a
trademark of the phrase.
characteristics.
Peace through strength. It's a philosophy that
guided the United States to victory in the Cold
War and a policy that protected us from the
calamity of nuclear war.
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was
proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan
on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and
space-based systems to protect the United
States from attack by strategic nuclear
ballistic missiles.
STRATEGIC
DEFENSE
INITIATIVE
The ambitious initiative was widely
criticized as being unrealistic, even
unscientific, as well as for
threatening to destabilize MAD and re-ignite
"an offensive arms race".[
characteristics.
In light of Reagan's vocal criticism of MAD,
the Strategic Defense Initiative was an
important part of his defense policy intended
to offset MAD bias.
The Round Table Talks between the
government and the Solidarity-led
opposition led to semi-free elections in
1989. By the end of August a Solidarity-led
coalition government was formed and in
December 1990 .
that constituted one third of the
total working age population
of Poland.
SOLIDARITY
MOVEMENT
characteristics.
Solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic
social movement, using the methods of civil
resistance to advance the causes of workers'
rights and social change