Lesson 3: Early Cold War

The United States vs. The Soviet Union

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a realist doctrine that led to a lack of nuclear strikes between the United States and the Soviet Union. It kept the war "cold."

Destalinization

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis , or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day (16 October – 20 November 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.

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