... has its origins in the last days of the Eisenhower Administration and the murky time period during the transition of power to the newly elected president, John F. Kennedy. In late 1958, Castro was still fighting a guerilla war against the corrupt regime of Fulgencio Batista. Before he came to power, ... was formed and established at La Finca, in Guatemala, and there the training was conducted entirely by Americans."" By now it was fall and President John F. Kennedy had replaced President Eisenhower. President Kennedy could have stopped the invasion if he wanted to, but he probably did no...

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... superpowers, the United States and The Soviet Union. -3- The United States and President Truman decided to adopt a policy called containment, an effort to block the Soviets attempts to spread their influence by creating alliances and supporting weaker countries. In March of 1946, Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister, gave ... became a center of espionage at the height of the Cold War. Some say that over 8,000 spies were all over the city. Novelist John le Carte called Berlin "a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets...a playground for every alchemist miracle-worker, and rat-pip...

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... and economically more and more to the Soviet Union - which represented a not acceptable safety risk for the USA. The on november 8th 1960 new elected democratic president of the USA, John Fitzgerald Kennedy wanted to dam the soviet influence on Cuba - because of this he put at the beginning of his term of office in april 1961 a decision which first inflicted ... each country had to think of a nuclear strike back in case of his first nuclear strike. Definitions The Cold War: Name used for the dispute between the East and West block; ideological and propagandist attacks, armament race, av...

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... led to a climax of tension in the form of the Berlin Blockade in June 1948. The USSR demonstrated its desire to remove the Western powers from Berlin as the Soviet block was threatened by the defections of masses of people and also the new currency that the Western powers had introduced. Berlin was the point where it all came to a head ... President by Eisenhower McCarthyism spread throughout America and it became common for people accused of being slightly communist to be arrested. Also at this time a policy was developed called Brinkmanship. John Foster Dulles properly introduced this...

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