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EVENTS. KOREAN WAR VIETNAM WAR JOSEPH MCCARTHY BAY OF PIGS CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS BERLIN WALL FALLS DOWN. McCarthy Witchhunt. Vietnam War North=Communist South = Democracy Ends in a Stalemate. “VIETNAMIZATION”. NIXON’S PLAN: VIETNAMIZATION LET THE VIETNAMESE GOVERN THEMSELVES.

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EVENTS

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  1. EVENTS • KOREAN WAR • VIETNAM WAR • JOSEPH MCCARTHY • BAY OF PIGS • CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS • BERLIN WALL FALLS DOWN

  2. McCarthy Witchhunt

  3. Vietnam War North=Communist South = Democracy Ends in a Stalemate

  4. “VIETNAMIZATION”

  5. NIXON’S PLAN: VIETNAMIZATION LET THE VIETNAMESE GOVERN THEMSELVES

  6. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

  7. The KKKS OF THE KOLD WAR IN KUBA • KENNEDY • KHRUSCHEV • CASTRO • CUBA • COMMUNISM!

  8. From l. to r.: President J.F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and Pierre Salinger, 29-10-1962 “We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked”Dean Rusk (US Secretary of State), 8-12-1962

  9. Bay of Pigs, 1961

  10. Bay of Pigs • “How could we have been so stupid?” (John F Kennedy) • April 17, 1961, CIA supported counter-revolutionary force of 1,300. • Total failure • What went wrong in the decision process?

  11. MASSIVE RETALIATION EISENHOWER’S PLAN!

  12. GORBACHEV’S PLAN: PERESTROIKA & GLASNOST OPENESS

  13. Source, BBC: 2000 Plus: Israel (?), India, Pakistan, North Korea (?), Iran (?)

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