secretly agreeing to remove theirs in Turkey.The Cold War thawed after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
The 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis ended with the Soviets agreeing to remove their missiles and the U.S. President John Kennedy threatened military action after Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in Cuba, only 90 miles from Florida. Joseph McCarthy, R-WI, notoriously investigated alleged government infiltrators.The arms race led to competing hydrogen bomb tests in the 1950s. The House Un-American Activities Committee targeted suspected 'subversives' and Sen. The two superpowers engaged in a Cold War struggle marked by Communism versus democracy, "godless" versus "God-fearing" societies, and the nuclear arms race.Beginning in the late 1940s, America was gripped by a 'Red Scare' over Communist spies and infiltrators. After World War II, the United States and Soviet Union became tense enemies.
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