usa containment

Question 1

korean war

Answer 1

• north was communist
• south was anti communist
• north korean troops were stronger than souths
• south was being taken over by communism
• truman sent warships and supplies but wanted UN support
• UN nations approved his request as USSR did not show up to the meet as it was busy with china
• USSR could have blocked the action with its veto
• truman could say UN sponsored the actions
• 18 states joined and pushed the north’s back out of the south
• they did not stop
• china told them to stop or they would join the war
• truman and MacArthur underestimated china’s troops
• 200,000 chinese soldiers joined the north and pushed them back into the south
• truman wanted to stop
• MacArthur ignored truman and threatened china with nuclear weapons

Question 2

cuban missile crisis

Answer 2

• 1959 fidel castro overthrew Batista
• he took over american businesses and made many flee to america
• 1960 eisenhower wanted to overthrow castro
• castro allied with the soviet union
• khrushchev gave 100 million and arms to cuba

Question 3

bay of pigs

Answer 3

• 1961 kennedy gave arms to 1400 anti-castro exiles to overthrow castro
• cuba knew this was happening and got 20,000 cuban troops and captured and killed US people
• khrushchev was scornful at kennedy for his attempt to get rid of communism
• showed kennedy was weak

Question 4

october crisis

Answer 4

• khrushchev sends arms to castro publicly
• americans were anxious to see if they would send nuclear weapons
• kennedy said he would do anything to prevent cuba being an offence
• khrushchev announced he was not going to place nuclears in cuba
• 1962 americans spotted nuclear basis in cuba
• kennedy blockaded cuba and told soviets to remove missiles
• khrushchev sent letters saying he would remove missiles if the blockade was removed. he sent another letter saying he would remove them if kennedy removed his nuclear weapons in turkey
• kennedy ignored the second part
• kennedy said he would attack so soviets dismantled their arms
• in secret kennedy removed nuclears from turkey
• USSR lagged behind USA in the arms race
• cuba stayed communist