https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv Ceri Fountain and Wylde Williams en-us 2022-03-27 02:57:17 UTC 2026-03-14 01:17:41 UTC hello@padlet.com fountaince https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115243781 Containment was a foreign policy used after the Cold war it was supposed to keep the spread of Communism “contained.”
Containment occurred in the 1940s.
Containment was used by the US to contain the spread of communism from the Soviet Union. 
America was afraid of the spread of communism because they wouldn’t be able to sell their goods. In order for a capitalist nation to thrive and support itself, it needs other capitalist nations to trade with. 
Containment kept America from becoming communist along with many other countries. There was more ease with the decrease of fear of communism. ]]> 2022-03-27 03:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115243781 fountaince https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115287463 McCarthyism is the practice of accusing alleged communists of treason and trying to leak information to communist nations.
The Red Scare is the most notable reason as to why McCarthyism happened. People were scared of America becoming communists and there were protests some signs saying things like “better dead than red.” 
Senator Joseph McCarthy had a speech in February, 1950. Where he named alleged communist members. 
There were protests and America was scared of America becoming communist. McCarthyism has created a history of America having a fear for anything slightly different. ]]> 2022-03-27 05:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115287463 fountaince https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115288709 The Truman Doctrine was the belief that America should help countries that were threatened by Soviet forces. 
The British Government announced that they weren’t going to offer assistance through the military and economically to the Greek Communist Party. 
President Harry S. Truman was the president at the time of the Truman doctrine and he was the main cause of it becoming in the first place. 
The American people were mainly supportive of the Truman Doctrine.
The Truman Doctrine made a significant impact on the US’s foriegn policy. ]]> 2022-03-27 05:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115288709 fountaince https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115289813 The Korean and Vietnam Wars were two wars fought far from home: the Korean War was fought in aid of South Korea against North Korea. The Vietnam war was fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
The Vietnam and the Korean Wars were mainly caused by the spread of communism during the Cold War.
North Korea and Vietnam The US supported South Korea to make sure that communism did spread.
Americans were scared of the spread of communism.
To this day America is generally scared of the possibilities of what North Korea could do.]]> 2022-03-27 05:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115289813 fountaince https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115290744 The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to help provide foreign aid to Western Europe.
To stimulate economic growth of Western Europe to prevent the spread of communism beyond the “iron curtain” and to encourage the development of a healthy and stable world economy.
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and western Germany. They were involved because they wanted to help in the reconstruction of the European economic system.
The Europeans reaction to the marshall plan was quick and positive, Stalin rejected it thinking it’d involve anti-soviet blocks. He then created the Soviet plan as response to the Marshall plan.
It generated a resurgence of European industrialization and it was a good stimulant to the U.S. Economy by establishing markets for American goods.]]> 2022-03-27 05:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115290744 fountaince https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115292044 The Bay of Pigs was an abortive invasion of Cuba.
There was hope that the invasion would lead to a rallying point for Cuban citizenry, who would then rise up and overthrow Castro's government.
America and Cuba were the countries involved with The Bay of Pigs.
President Eisenhower allowed the CIA to recruit 1,400 Cuban exiles living in Miami.
A lasting impact on the Kennedy administration.]]> 2022-03-27 05:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115292044 fountaince https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115294066 The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba.
President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles.
The U.S. and the Soviet Union were involved with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The U.S. enacted a naval “quarantine” around Cuba, intercepting all Cuban-bound Soviet ships and turning away those thought to be or confirmed to be carrying weaponry.
It strengthened J.F.K's image domestically and internationally, and it may have helped mitigate negative world opinion regarding the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

]]> 2022-03-27 05:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115294066 fountaince https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115295375 The Space Race was a 20th century competition between two cold war adversaries, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
It originated from the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following WWII.
The Soviet Union and the United States, following the Cold War, were involved in the Space Race.
America's response was passing the National Aeronautics and Space Act.
The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites into space, along with sending men to the moon.]]> 2022-03-27 05:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/fountaince/ld2wuklyw17tp5gv/wish/2115295375