tension- Assassination of JFK

While visiting in Dallas,TX president JFk was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. On November 22, 1963 our nation had lost its leader. Lee killed JFK with one shot that fired into his neck. Though Lee was never caught he was latter assassinated. This created a huge tension for the people.

tension- U-2

When the U.S.A wanted to investagate they sent U-2s over the are to take a look. U-2s are planes with cameras on them. When the Soviets found out that we had been inspecting their area of land they were very angry at us. So President eisenhower decided that he would discontinue the use of u-2 planes. So we sent one last plane over and that was it other than the time we used the U-2s for the Cuban missile crisis.

Tensions; arms race

The U.S.S.R and the U.S compeated in the arms race. AS they both try to win the race of making to best weapons only one can win. On Jan.31,1950 president truman athurized the H-bomb. On November 1,1952 the first H-bomb exploded.On August 1953 the U.S.S.R created their H-bomb and it exploded.

Tensions; space race

The U.S and U.S.S.R were in a race against time to be the fist to launch a satelliet into space. All of our launches kept failing one after another. On October 9, 1957 the U.S.S.R won the race by Launching Sputnik into the orbit. America suddenly became afraid of simple things such as going outside. We feared that at anytime our would could end because of nuclear warheads. We worried about our future and our kids future. We were very happy when sputnik was retrevied out of space.

Cold war background

The cold war began in 1945 between former allies the United states and the Soviet union. Two nations that were separating because of threats and communism. The U.S. wanted nothing to do with communism so they did everything in their power to stop the spread of it. After China became communist general MacArthur developed a plan. His plan was for the U.S. to join South Korea. Soon North Korea took South Korea to war over the 38th parallel pushing the south down into a city named Pusan. Though MacArthur's plan worked Truman ended his duty as general because he went against Truman's orders. This angered many people in the United States but that was the least of Truman's worries at the time. As the Cold war ended many other issues began to develope.