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H-bombThe H-bomb was apart of the cold war because the United States developed and

fielded a hydrogen bomb in the face of repeated military and politicial provocations by the soviet union. The explosion of the soviet union atomic device in 1949 gave major impetus to the U.S hydrogen bomb project.

The only way the hydrogen bomb would have worked was right after the thermonuclear bomb would set off so they say. The hydrogen bomb was started in 1945 and did not detonate until 1951. The way the hydrogen bomb got its power is from the fusing together of hydrogen atoms. Fusion is the same process that creates the sun and stars. Harnessed into a weapon, fusion had the potential to create a blast 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb.

The blast of the H-bomb went more than 25 miles high, 3 miles in diameter, 10.4 megatons of energy was released. That is equivalent to 10.4 million tons on TNT. In 1953 the soviets had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb of their own.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan is the codename of the CIA project, in course of which over 14,000 Cuban children were sent from Cuba to Miami by their parents after rumors spread that the Cuban government let by Fidel Castro will soon begin taking children against their parents’ wishes. They would have then sent them to military schools and Soviet labour camps. This took place between 1960 and 1962. During Operation Peter Pan, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami and Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh, the children were placed with relatives and friends. Some were also placed in group homes in 35 states.

During operation peter pan when the United States would bring the children over here they were funded by oil companies and other U.S corporations that were kicked out of Cuba following the 1959 revolution, which brought Fidel Castro to power. In 1961 the U.S closed its embassy in Cuba and then there was the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion, attempted to overthrow the Cuban government. When we could not, Cube asked the Soviet Union for missiles to protect themselves. This set off the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

While all of this was happening through the United States and Cuba all flights were cancelled between the two. This took 5 to 6 years for the people, who moved to

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America to go back to Cuba, this all ended in 1962. Thank you to the U.S we got them through it!

Princess Grace

She starred in the 1954 movie 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri' which lionized US combat pilots that had fought in the Korean War. The movie was an important propaganda exercise in showing the US public just what their military had been doing to combat Communism. Princess Grace also starred in “High Noon” in 1952.

The movie “High Noon” related to the cold war a lot so when Princess Grace was in it she became known for that movie, it was a hit. The movie was a clear message to peace campaigners that it’s necessary to choose sides and play an active part in the struggle between good and evil, aka the U.S (good) the Soviets (evil).

Princess Grace was not always a princess, she was Grace Kelly a movie star in America and she married Prince Rainier of Monaco. She lived through the first few years of the cold war then she died in a car crash, I don’t think that besides the movie’s she has any connection to the cold war.

Children of the Thalidomide

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In the 1950’s there was a drug called Thalidomide that was made to treat morning sickness for those who were pregnant. Thalidomide was sold from 1957 till 1961, until it started causing birth defects. Women would take this to keep from nausea, headaches, dizziness, and all the other side effects from happening. Doctors saw a change in the way children looked when they were born, they would have shorter limbs and they would be very short, they might have two or three extra toes or fingers. Sometimes children would have more then 4 limbs, they would be grossly deformed!

Most children that were born while there mother was taking Thalidomide would come out with 2 birth marks on their faces, there would be one on their forehead, one on their upper lip, and one on their chin! At first the doctors did not know what was causing this, then soon after more and more children started having these defects they looked in to it more and researched and found out that the children were being off set by the medicine Thalidomide. Doctors discontinued the use of Thalidomide in 1961. There should have been no “Thalidomide babies” in 1962 but numerous people still had Thalidomide tablets so they would take them. In 1963 most of the “Thalidomide babies” stopped ariving.

Children of the Thalidomide was apart of the cold war because it was yes a very scarce time, and this defection happened in Germany and spread to America, The Germans were the ones who had created the tablet. But anyhow they way that this relates to the cold war is because 1. It happened during the cold war. 2. It affected a lot of children during the cold war. and 3. It just relates because it was in the time period of the cold war.

President KennedyPresident Kennedy was the President during the cold war! Bay of pigs was one of

the closest battles to becoming a nuclear war between America and the Soviet union. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The U.S. government distrusted Castro and was wary of his relationship with Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union.

Shortly after Kennedy inauguration in February 1961 Kennedy authorized the invasion plan. Kennedy wanted to disguise the U.S support. The United States also tried and disguised our landing point for the bay of pigs. Did not go so well because our landing point left the invading force more than 80 miles from refuge in Cuba’s Escambray incase anything went wrong.

On April 15, 1961, eight bombers left Nicaragua to bomb Cuban airfields, the CIA used obsolete WWII B-26 bombers and painted them to look like Cuban air force planes, when the bombers missed most of their targets leaving most of Castro’s air force

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together. Soon after that throughout the news were pictures of the U.S painting our planes to look like the Cubans air force. Kennedy cancelled the second air strike. On April 17 Cuban-exile invasion force known as Brigade 2506 landed along the beachside of the bay of pigs and were thrown under heavy fire immediately. The Cuban planes sank two ships and strafed the invaders. They also destroyed half of the exiles air support. Kennedy was soon assassinated after the bay of pigs.