One good example of containment was the Berlin Airlift. After WWII the country of Berlin was split into 4 divisions, one for each of the Allied Forces: United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and France. As result of the growing tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union …show more content…
At the beginning of January 1959 Cuba falls victim to a communist government under Fidel Castro’s reign (Document D). With a red scare so close to its shores, the United States plan an unsuccessful attack, dubbed Bay of Pigs, in an attempt to overthrow Castro. Not so much as a year later, in the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union begins to quietly ship over 40,000 soldiers, 60 missiles and 158 nuclear warheads to Cuba’s --- (Document D). Ever cautious of a possible alliance between Cuba and the Soviet Union the United States finds evidence of nuclear missiles on Cuban territory by means of spy planes therefore declaring quarantine against any and all shipments of weapons to Cuba (Document D). Faced with unmeasurable tension, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, having nuclear missiles facing the other come to a silent agreement to remove their nuclear bases thus ending the crisis (Document D). --add the last part