1950’S AND 1960’S COLD WAR
Unit 11 – Topic 3
The Red Scare
Sputnik
It’s a MAD MAD World!
 New
policy of “massive
retaliation” to deter any nuclear
strike by the Soviets.
 Nuclear arms race leads to MAD:
Mutually Assured Destruction
1960’s Cold War
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The Cold War influenced EVERYTHING – especially
politics and the economy
In politics…who can be toughest on Communism
….without starting WW3?
The “Daisy Ad”
John F. Kennedy
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President from 1960-1963 – Strong against
Communism
Kennedy said the US would "pay any price, bear
any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and
success of liberty."
He also asked for personal sacrifice when he said,
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what
you can do for your country."
CUBA! – Fidel Castro and
the Bay of Pigs Disaster
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In 1959, Fidel Castro
led a Communist
Revolution against a
corrupt dictatorship in
Cuba. Many Cubans
fled to the US.
The CIA trained and
supported a group of
Cuban exiles to try to
retake the island from
Fidel Castro, but they
failed and were
captured.
Back in Berlin………
Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK’s programs