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the cuban missile crisis started in 1962 when cuban leader castro took power and started working with soviet russia and supplied many weapons and missiles. the united states didn't like that russia had a source to attack the united states from so close, but we also had supplied weapons to turkey which is also pretty close to russia. we then ended the dispute by making an agreement to withdraw our weapons from both countries.

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the Truman Doctrine was a doctrine signed in 1947 shortly after the end of world war 2. We knew that after world war 2, Russia would try to start the spread of communism to other countries. America didn't want this for two important reasons, as a capitalist we nation needed other capitalist nations so we could freely be able to trade, and the second reason, we wanted us and other countries to keep a lot of the freedoms they have been given. these are the reasons we signed the Truman Doctrine, which pledged that we must not let communism spread outside of Russia.

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the space race was a competition between Russia and America from 1955 to 1969 to get to the moon first. this was America and the united states trying to stay ahead of each other in technology. this would mostly start when russia launched the first space station into space called Sputnik, this would cause the united states to progress faster and make many advancements in spacecraft. the united states went through many trials and tests to get to the moon, the three most important was for one, mercury the spacecraft that first got Americans into space, then Gemini which trained a lot of astronauts for later apollo mission, which lead to apollo 11 being the first spacecraft to ever land on the moon.

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McCarthyism was a hysteria that happened throughout the 1950s. this was brought on by the rise of the cold war, where the united states tried to stop the spread of communism by Soviet Russia, at this time the hysteria could have also been referred to as the red scare. the red scare was already in effect, but McCarthyism started when Joseph McCarthy claimed he had a list of 205 communist spies employed in the Department of State. this led to paranoia throughout the united states, leading to many innocent people getting blacklisted, one including one of my favorite celebrities, charlie chaplin.