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Get Amazon Audible  - https://snip.ly/ncfxpu - 1 Month Free Trial COLD WAR The main cause of tension between the Superpowers during the 1960s was the Cuban Missile Crisis.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Cuban Missile Crisis ·           Defcom 2 was in place first time ·           Series of Ultimatums ·           Tensions escalated as both countries vowed it will never happen again – direct telephone hotline + Limited test ban treaty 1963 BERLIN WALL ·           1963 Ich bin ein Berliiner speech showed American interest and determination ·           Led to 3 increase in US military budget ·           Berlin became a symbol of democracy in the face of the terrible communist regime U2 Incident -1960 · ...

      Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919 and consisted of 440 Articles setting out the terms for Germany's punishment. The treaty was greeted with shock and disbelief in Germany. The treaty set out 440 Articles detailing Germany's punishment. These were the most important: Key articles Article number Description 1-26: The Covenant of the League of Nations - Germany was not allowed to join. 42: The Rhineland was demilitarised - the German army was not allowed to go there. 45: The Saar, with its rich coalfields, given to France for 15 years. 51: Alsace-Lorraine returned to France. 80: Germany forbidden to unite with Austria. 87: Lands in eastern Germany - the rich farmlands of Posen and the Polish corridor between Germany and East Prussia - given to Poland. 100: Danzig made a free city under League of Nations control. 119: All Germany's colonies taken and given to France and Britain as 'mandates'. 160: The German army restricted t...

Get Amazon Audible  - https://snip.ly/ncfxpu - 1 Month Free Trial - Read up on the Cuban Missile Crisis Using this The Cuban missile crisis was a 13 day long (October 16-28th 1962)  confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American nuclear deployment in Italy and Turkey with subsequent Soviet nuclear missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation, was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.  There was a coup in Cuba in 1959 . In it, a small group of people led by Fidel Castro took power. The new government of Cuba took over some American businesses. The American government refused to buy anything from Cuba after that. The US embargo against Cuba began February 7, 1962. In 1962, the American government was worried that the USSR would attack America from Cuba, because Cuba is near enough that the missiles could reach almost any major city in America. Cuba was at that time a Communist country, like the Sov...