The Cuban missile crisis was an important event that took place during the cold war. In the Cuban missile crisis, America was fearing that The Soviet Union had certain missile instalations in Cuba . The U.S found out about these missile installments from satellite imagery that showed the missiles being transported

During the Korean War the U.S supported South Korea because of an invasion by North Korea. North Korea was supported by The Soviet Union and allied with China in this war. This was a big war because communism was spreading in Europe and Asia and the U.S wanted to stop it because if communist grew than the U.S would lose its power and then fall to The Soviet Union in the cold war.

In 1959 Cuban control went to Fidel Castro who was a communist. Fidel quickly took over the U.S. oil refineries in Cuba and as a result the U.S. stopped buying Cuban sugar, and with that Castro took over all the businuess in Cuba. This gave Kennedy the idea to invade the Bay of Pigs to try and overthrow Fidel. When we went in we failed to defeat the Cubans because we lacked the support from other Cuban citizens.

The Vietnam war was another instance of Cold War Propaganda. During the time of the Vietnam war, the cold war was going on. The Vietnam war was between the north and the south. The north was supported by The Soviet Union. The Soviet Union gave weapons and supplies to the North Vietnamese. Since The Soviet Union took the side of the North, the United States took the side of the South. The South was given supplies and weapons and the U.S soldiers also fought. "Communist victory in 1975 had profound ramifications for the United States; it was not only a setback to the containment of communism in Asia but a shock to American self-confidence." (Bernhard, 16)

Durin the Cold War in Germany things weren't going so well. After world warII ended Germany was split up because it was so destroyed. The Soviet Union decided to take everything from Germany and so the U.S devised 2 plans for what they should do with there part. The marshall plan and the morgentau plan. The morgentau plan was proposed by a jewish congressman and he obviously believed that Germany should become an agriculturally based country. On the other hand the Marshall plan proposed that we build up the country in order to help us against the Soviet Union. The country was then divided into 2 parts, East and West Germany. The West side controlled by U.S ,France, and Britian , and the East controlled by Russia. Everyone wanted to be in West Germany because it was much better conditions and people had work and there was more freedom, so the Soviet Union made the iron curtain to prevent them from going. The country capital was Berlin and on the east side so West Germany was able to access it through the transit and then the people would just go to Berlin and escape that way.

Another big instance of Cold War propaganda was in the Afghanistan situation. The Afghanistan's had a communistic government which was supported by the Soviets. There was a group opposing the communist government called the Mujaheaden. The Mujaheadens were a rebel group who operated out of the mountains in Afghanistan. They wanted to

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