The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey pointing at the Soviet Union.
President Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan is most known for being president during the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
Bay of Pigs
In 1961 the United States sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government. They failed miserably. The invasion is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in the Americas.
Joseph Stalin
Fighting the Germans in WW2 and starting the Cold War
Space Race
During the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union engaged a competition to see who had the best technology in space.
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built by the communist government of East Berlin in 1961.
Communism
All people are treated equally and there is little private ownership. In a communist government, the government owns and controls most everything including property, means of production, education, transportation, and agriculture.
