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In 1961, there were many Cuban exiles in the  United States. The United States trained those exiles with CIA military strategies and decided to stage an invasion at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. President Kennedy did not agree with this idea o the invasion and refused to supply armed personal however the invasion still occurred. Many were captured by Castro and resulted in the US paying Cuba about $53 million worth of food and supplies in return for the release of the captured.

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It all started when Kennedy refused to supply armed personal for the Cuban Invasion. The Soviet's took this response as a way to build missile launch sites in Cuba because they believed the US would not interfere. The whole  idea of the missile launch sites was to prevent any future US  invasions into Cuba since the Soviet Union and Cuba were allies. On the contrary, word got out to the US president who planned a response for the issue and blocked Cuba completely. As a result, the Soviets promised to get out of Cuba and take their missiles with them as long as the US took their missiles out of Turkey. All of the tension of missile sites led to what was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Brinkmanship is a foreign policy that is the "practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other."  The main period in which brinkmanship was present was when the Soviet Union and the US were on the verge of a nuclear war. The tactic of brinkmanship was used because each would do or say something in hopes of overcoming their opponent.

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In 1957, President Eisenhower proposed the doctrine to Congress who approved of it. The doctrine granted other nations the right to request the United States for economic assistance or military forces if they are being threatened by another state. It was really put to the test when Lebanon felt the threat of the Soviet Union and requested the US's assistance. The whole purpose of the doctrine was to help the US have a flexible ability to intervene in foreign affairs mainly when the Soviet Union tried to invade other countries with their communism beliefs.

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The incident happened when the United States was flying a spy plane through Soviet territory. The Soviet Union had shot down the plane and captured its pilot. After confrontation with President Eisenhower, the Soviet now knew that the CIA had been doing spy missions through flights for several years causing the pilot to be sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage. The entire incident created more tension between the two rivals.

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The Space Race fell under the advances of technology and ability to have satellites in space which essential allowed a country access to any other countries servers. The idea of space became a new competition for superiority and military power. After all the competition, the Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite into space which caused fear for Americans that the US was falling behind in the world. Overall, the space race was the event that made countries become perceived as superior.

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McCarthyism occurred during the Second Red Scare when Senator Joseph McCarthy often accused government personal of being communist with little evidence.  McCarthy was able to convince people that there was a true communist threat in the United States because he created the paranoia of communist spies were omnipresent and that he was America’s only salvation. He was able to create an atmosphere of fear which caused people to believe McCarthy and the idea of communism in the United States. The whole idea ended up in many innocent lives being lost and consequences such as a diminished reputation because those that were accused of being communist could not live that down.

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NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization and it was created by the United States in order to form allies with countries in Europe that opposed communism. Some of the non-communist countries involved were Britain and France. The whole idea of the NATO was to create allies in order to collectively stop the Soviet Union's influence of communism throughout the world.

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In 1950, the United States went to war with North Korea because the US was helping South Korea refrain from communism in the country. He whole war started when North Korea started to invade South Korea which was when the US got involved. The United States had pushed North Korea back into their country in hopes of stopping the spread of communism but allies of North Korea -China- were ready to aid them which pushed US out of their country. The war ended in 1953 while South Korea and North Korea still practice different government techniques.

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After WWII ended, the allies including the United States, France, and Britain had occupied an area in Berlin which was Soviet territory. The Soviet Union had wanted to push its occupiers out of Berlin so they could have the city all to themselves. They went to drastic efforts to push them out such as closing highways, limiting food availability and other supplies. Unfortunately, their efforts were not successful because the allies decided to get their necessary supplies through an aircraft. The whole strategy and idea of using the airfield in Berlin is how the event got its name "Berlin Airlift."

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The Marshall Plan was a European Recovery Program that allowed for America to help rebuild Western Europe which is where World War II mainly took place. It was established by the Secretary of State George Marshall in July 1947. A fun fact is that "the United States spent thirteen billion dollars on economic and technical support for the war-torn democratic European countries that were destroyed during WWII."

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In 1947, President Harry Truman established this doctrine that stated "the United States would supply any nation with economic and military aid to prevent its falling under the Soviet Union's influence." The doctrine was a changing point in Foreign Policy because it allowed for the United States to intervene in other countries freely which had not been established clearly before the Cold War.

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The term was used in reference to a "'impenetrable barrier' between the Soviet Bloc in the East and the Countries of the West." The whole idea of the Iron Curtain referred to the Soviet Union's influence of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. Winston Churchill was the first to speak about the this idea at a Council on Foreign Relations in 1945.

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-  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cold-war?s=t
- http://www.ushistory.org/us/52a.asp
- https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/kennan
- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech
- https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/truman-doctrine
- http://www.history.com/topics/korean-war
- http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-airlift
- http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/u2-spy-incident
- https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/eisenhower-doctrine
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The Cold War was an "intense economic, political  military and ideological rivalry between nations, the United States and Soviet Union." The Cold War started right after the end of World War II and lasted about 45 years. It all started when the United States "became the leader of the free-market capitalist world" because they were the leaders who were responsible for stopping the spread of communism by the totalitarian Soviet Union.

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Containment started when the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact which was an alliance of communists nations they controlled in Eastern Europe. As a result the US created a foreign policy in 1947 during the Cold War in hopes of stopping the spread of communism throughout the world because our nation started to fear Soviet's influence in Europe.