Cold War

Soviet Union indeed shot down a US U-2 surveillance plane on 1st May, 1960. The plane was flying from a base in Northern Pakistan and was on a mission over Soviet Union near Ural region when it was shot down by a SAM (SA-2). The pilot Gary Powers was taken prisoner after he safely bailed out.

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We had to use ration cards when I was in Europe 1970-1975. The cards limited the amount of purchase of alcohol, tobacco, sugar, and orange juice.I don't remember about the Orange juice but we could only buy four cartons of cigarettes and four quarts of alcohol and five pounds of sugar per month. Our command issued the cards yearly.

US, Britain, USSR, Red China.

The romance of the "Trojan Horse." As years roll by, historians it seems, question the actual existence of the Trojan War, as they do the city of Troy itself.

a wealthy polital Nicaraguan family that helped Nicaragua become a rich nation until they were overthrown by a communist group the FSLN that were backed up by Jimmy Carter and his administration and the Nicaragua became the second poorest country in the western hemisphere.

Europeans heavily colonized many of the different countries in Africa. During the time of the cold war, there was a string of independence movements from many of the different countries in Africa with Libya being the first in 1952.

Francis Gary Powers was the pilot of the U-2 (USA spy plane) shot down while flying over the Soviet Union airspace on May 1, 1960. The event sparked one of the greatest international crises of the Cold War.

The main economic cause of the cold war was America's desire and need for world wide open markets. It was believed that for capitalism to be successful, and the American and world wide economy to recover, open markets were necessary. This was contradictory to the communist belief in closed markets. This issue came to a head in Europe where America wanted open markets in all of Europe and Russia wanted closed markets in countries they wanted to control as a buffer to American capitalism.

In the US, bomb shelters were a boom in business in the late 1950's and early 1960's; the Eisenhower/Kennedy years. They were hardly spoken of after the mid 1960's. By the late 1960's people often spoke fun of those people (made fun of them) that built those bomb shelters. ALthough no doubt some may still exist, bomb shelters in the US are a thing of the past which ended in the 1960's.

It weakened the Chinese, providing an opportunity for Japan to invade.

The Berlin Blockade was supposed to cause the allies to give up western Berlin to the Soviet forces, but instead the allies constantly airlifted supplies past the blockade until it was lifted.

Containment

None at present,

Named after the Soviet design bureau of Mikoyan-Gurevich (abbreviated MiG). The YAK's were named after Yakovlev, and the LA's after Lavochkin.

High performance technology VERSES high performance technology. Example(s): During the Vietnam War, when US B-52 Strategic Bombers were shot down by North Vietnamese MIG-21 jet fighters and/or Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs), the "Air War Over North Vietnam was a HIGH INTENSITY WAR." When US Air Force F-100 Supersabre jet fighter bombers attacked NVA light infantry forces in SOUTH Vietnam, supporting ground troops, and the F-100's did not face any hi-tech anti-aircraft defenses (another jet, missiles, etc.) but only faced standard small arms fire; that would be "low intensity."

Better known as the McCarthy Trials running from the late 40's to the early 50's. The events of often compared to the Salem Witch Trials in that anyone could make an accusation or suggestion of subversion or treason and no real evidence was necessary. The people brought before the 'Commission' and asked to admit there acts or perhaps name others to get a pass. It was a system ruled by fear (think post September 11- when Bush denied and removed the rights of hundreds of thousands of people, with little resistance because resistance equals treason). Anyone deemed to be a communist was blacklisted and became seen as less then human.

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The Soviet Union no longer provided aid and weapons to African countries

Andrew Jackson was the leader who exceeded instructions, but eventually gained support. Jackson went on to serve as the 7th President of the U.S.

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Joseph McCarthy had a fairly unremarkable career in the Senate prior to 1950. He was popular in social circles but not like very well among his fellow Senators. He was voted the worst Senator in office after an incident related to the 1944 Malmedy Massacre.

President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative involved space based missiles and lasers to shoot down Soviet warheads. The system never was built.

A US actor, famous for playing "Frankenstein."

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"I believe this quote is attributed to Bertrand Russell."

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