Question

Directions: Please write three facts regarding the following terms.

Warsaw Pact

Korean War

Berlin Airlift

McCarthyism

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

Answer 1

Warsaw Pact:

• It is a military alliance officially known as the treaty of friendship, assistance and mutual cooperation.
• It was signed in 1955
• The Soviet Union along with its satelite states created the Warsaw Pact.

Korean War:

• The Korean War began on june 25, 1950
• It was fought between North Korea and South Korea.
• It was short but the bloodiest one as nearly 5 million people died in that.

Berlin Aircraft:

• 394,509 tons (400,821 tonnes) of foodstuffs, coal and supplies carried by 689 military and civil aircraft - 441 US, 147 RAF and 101 British civil.
• The pilots and aircrew also came from Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand
• 200,230,415 km (124,420,813 miles) were flown during the airlift. A total of 277,804 flights.

McCarthyism:

• McCarthyism is named after Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was a leading figure in the hunt for so-called Communist subversives.
• Many actors, actresses, and writers were blacklisted.
• McCarthyism started when senator McCarthy claimed that 200 comunists infiltrated in the US congress.

Cuban Missile Crisis:

• It was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
• a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile downed an American U-2 plane, killing its pilot, Major Rudolf Anderson Jr.
• Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet military spy was a valuable mole.

Vietnam War:

• Vietnam War spans 1 Nov 1955 – 30 Apr 1975.

• U.S. and South Vietnamese Presidents were shot in 1963.

• More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.