JFK and the cold war

Bay of pigs invasion

• To overthrow Castro the (CIA) trained a group of Cubans to invade cuba
• This invasion proved to be a military and diplomatic disaster which means it was bad for the economy and bad for military forces

The Berlin Crisis

• Germany had been divided in to communist and non-communist zones
• Increased spending on military and increased the amount of armed forces
• The Berlin wall became a war somber symbol of cold war tensions

The Cuban Missle Crisis

• This brought the superpowers to the brink of a nuclear war
• President Kennedy orders a naval quarantine a,round Cuba and he demanded that the soviet leader cease the making of the missles
• The ships suddenly turned around and were called back by the soviet leader and this gave tremendous relief and the threat of a nuclear war had been avoided

Assassination of president Kennedy

• On November 22, 1963 Kennedy was shot while riding an open limousine
• The prime suspect in his murder was Lee Harvey Oswald
• The warren commission said that Oswald acted alone but theories said that him and Ruby did it together

The Cold War

• On August 6th, 1945 hiroshima was bombed
• June 5th, 1947 the marshall plan was made to aid europe
• July 27th, 1953 the korean war ended